Winifred Frick, the chief scientist at a bat conservation society, was picking up her son from a theater troupe in Santa Cruz, Calif., just before lockdown when a helper there asked: Why have bats done this to us? “I set her straight,” said Dr. Frick, an ecology and biology research professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who, among other things, pointed out that humans are the ones spreading the virus.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 28, 2020 18:54 UTC