Viral Telephone: How COVID-19 Spread from Animals to Humans
In Brief: Some scientists are investigating the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Mutations are a natural result of viral replication. One way to think of a virus mutating is a long game of telephone. Discovering the origins of the novel coronavirus could actually help us prevent a future virus from spiraling into a pandemic. Let’s be honest, who doesn’t want to move on from the COVID-19 pandemic? 2020...