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COVID-19 first appeared in a group of Chinese miners in 2012, scientists say – New York Post

The coronavirus may not have originated at a Wuhan wet market last year but 1,000 miles away in 2012 — deep in a Chinese mineshaft where workers came down with a mysterious, pneumonia-like illness …

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By Isabel Vincent
August 15, 2020 | 2:39pm
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The coronavirus may not have originated at a Wuhan wet market last year but 1,000 miles away in 2012 deep in a Chinese mineshaft where workers came down with a mysterious, pneumonia-like illness after being exposed to bats.
Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson, both of the non-profit…

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