As the world continues to grapple with soaring death counts and mutated strains, China is already relegating the pandemic to its version of history. They’ve also seized on research that suggests there were infections in the U.S. and Italy that pre-date those in Wuhan. China has ignored appeals for an independent investigation into the virus’s origin, hammering Australia with trade restrictions after it called for one. “And it seems to have seeded the rest of China from there, and then from China to the rest of the world." Wertheim and his colleagues studied SARS-CoV-2 virus genomes and the pace at which they mutated and diversified from the earliest known specimens in Wuhan.

Source: Mint December 30, 2020 22:07 UTC