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In reply to the discussion: Trump wonders if COVID-19 genomes gave fake quotes to the NYT in bizarre Saturday outburst [View all]Aussie105
(5,401 posts)Anyhow.
Not too difficult to trace back the origins of the virus. The US version may well have it's origin in Europe, but where did it come from before then?
Just a matter of studying the base sequence of the viral RNA from different places, and comparing them.
The more the virus replicates, the more base sequence errors occur. So the one with the most errors would be from ground zero.
And that may well be anywhere. Only further research into the base sequences of viral RNA from different geographical locations will tell the full story.
But that is only of academic interest, people are kind of busy right now with more important things.
As always, Trump's simplistic view of reality - 'It is all China's fault!' - may not be the whole true picture.