The mystery origins of the COVID-19 virus, an ongoing search

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 12 September 2023

The pandemic is officially over, but the virus that causes COVID-19 is not done with us yet.  People are still getting sick and dying and the virus is still mutating. 

To keep up with treatments and public health policies, we need to understand the source of it says author and science writer David Quammen. 

The search for a point of origin is divisive and political. He looks at the evidence and the debate in a piece for the New York Times Magazine called The Ongoing Mystery of COVID's Origin.

An employee wearing protective clothing does testings for the coronavirus at a laboratory as the spread of the disease continues, in Arkhangelsk, Russia.

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