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COVID-19 origins: What to know about the search for the start of the virus – ABC News

More than a year after a “mysterious pneumonia” sickened workers at a seafood market in China, scientists are still gathering clues about where SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — emerged from.
“It’s critical to understand where this virus came from, so that we can understand how to stop future outbreaks going forward,” said Anne Rimoin, an infectious disease epidemiologist at UCLA.
The investigation into the virus’ origins is crucial for public health and science reasons, but it has…

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