SA: Virus Mutations Reveal How COVID-19 Really Spread

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Until now, the spread of COVID-19 has been somewhat of a mystery. Currently, genetic sequencing of the virus is thought to reveal the truth about how the virus spread and became a pandemic. The mutations show that the virus first jumped from animals to humans in China, where it spread among humans within the region, and quickly diffused globally via travel from China to countries around the world. The scientists pose that the pandemic was created precisely by this human contact, not by a rapidly mutating virus. By mapping the spread of the virus, it is apparent that a faster response, wider testing in China, earlier social distancing and earlier, stricter global travel bans and isolation of infected individuals would have lessened the effect of COVID-19. 

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