Last week, it was revealed that genetic material collected at a wet market in China suggests that raccoon dogs may have played a role in the origin of the COVID-19 virus, but it`s 'pretty unfortunate' that it took this long to receive this data, according to Dr. Isaac Bogoch.
The suggestion that raccoon dogs may have played a role in the origin of COVD-19, based on the collection of genetic material from a wet market in China, doesn’t shed much light on the current pandemic situation, according to one Canadian expert.
“They’re only being made available now, and in fact they were uploaded to a global public repository for genetic material, and then subsequently removed, so there certainly is an issue with transparency,” he said. “I think another key point here is that this is still a theory, we still don’t have an answer, this provides incremental data in terms of understanding what the origin of the virus was,” he said.
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