Here’s proof that the coronavirus mutation responsible for the pandemic’s severity came from China

[Chris Smith]

• An increasing number of coronavirus studies looking at the most significant mutation so far show that the D614G strain is more infectious than the original Wuhan strain.
• The D614G mutation originates from eastern China and is responsible for the COVID-19 outbreaks that hit Europe and New York City early in the pandemic.
• Some researchers think that the increased infectiveness of D614G turned the outbreak into a pandemic.

A year after the novel coronavirus virus started spreading in China, the world still doesn’t know how the pandemic started. What was the animal that first passed the pathogen to a human host? When did it happen?

China has never addressed those questions, choosing to deflect blame and even suggest the virus might have originated elsewhere before reaching the country. The latest such idea came a few weeks ago when China wondered whether the virus was imported to Wuhan via frozen food packaging from a different nation. But China has no proof to back up such claims, and the incoming World Health Organization investigation might shed more light on the virus’s origin. But researchers who have tracked the virus from the moment it was discovered say that the coronavirus mutation responsible for the pandemic's severity came from China.

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