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       COVID-19: New insights on a rapidly changing epidemic (JAMA)
   DIR By: agate
       Date: March 10, 2020, 11:57 pm
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       A Viewpoint article in JAMA (February 28, 2020), "COVID-19: New
       Insights on a Rapidly Changing Epidemic":
  HTML http://bit.ly/2IE43i8
       Among other informative details, there is this:
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       > Named 2019-nCoV by the WHO and SARS-CoV-2 by the International
       Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, this virus is a new
       human-infecting Betacoronavirus that, based on its genetic
       proximity to 2 bat-derived SARS-like coronaviruses, likely
       originated in chrysanthemum bats.
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       If anyone is interested, this is supposed to be a chrysanthemum
       bat:
       [img alt=Image result for chrysanthemum bat
       photo]
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