>>11329050>How did it spread from bats to humans?It's not 100% clear that it came from bats, it's just that corona viruses in bats are very well studied so we have way more data from them. The match of most proteins to known bat corona viruses is more like 70%. Because we have so much data on bats, the odds that we have samples similar to it are higher, even though it might actually be from another species.
There's a lot of reason to believe it came from snakes in fact.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25682However sneks prey on bats so it's still possible that a bat virus jumped to sneks and then to humans. The BLAST run I did showed similarities to several different bat strains so a host intra-cell cross-over event that gave it survivability in sneks is quite possible.
Snakes were known to be sold at the market in question (they're also delicious, they taste like extra savoury chicken).
