Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Covid update: Coronavirus news from around the world | DW News" video.

  1. Which one, the UK virus, the South African virus, the Brazilian virus and of course the yet to be discovered US 1 and US 2 virus ( the US don't do much of that genomic stuff yet, something about testing and number of strains, if you don't test you don't have cases)
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  2. You do not no the index case was in China because it hasn't been found , we know that the first major outbreak was in Wuhan that's all. Is it possible a Chinese tourist was in another country and caught it and brought it back to China. Unless you have discovered the particular strain that is almost identical from a bat in China and tested bats in neighboring countries to eliminate that it's common in more than one country you don't know. Did it probably start in China certainly but that only probably. Just like the UK strain, did it start in the UK we really have no idea , it's a country that kept it's border open and it could be the UK index case of that strain was imported. Search Hendra virus disease CDC. Hendra is a neighbouring suburb to me only 10 km away. If you find that CDC page it has a map of the likely distribution of the virus based on the carrier species of bat and also where the virus has been identified and actual outbreak cases in horses ranging from northern New South Wales to Far North Queensland. The known cases have been a across a distribution of about 2,000 km. The outbreaks usually are in rural areas, it could just be luck that human to human transmission has never been observed although from the very small known case numbers in horses and humans the mortality rate has been about 70% so maybe the person generally gets too ill to spread it. Given the range of Hendra virus it's quite possible that the precursor virus to covi sars2 that made the jump to humans if carried by a widely distributed bat could be in many countries. All we know is when this virus hit Wuhan in B strain it went crazy. That's all we know for certain, the rest is speculation based on probability only.
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