Despite the virus being characterized in pangolins, after looking into this, I now think it is basically incorrect to think of this as primarily a “pangolin virus.” The pangolins were a dying canary in a coal mine, and probably caught it from something else that serves as the real reservoir species for this nCOV precursor*.
Despite the virus being characterized in pangolins, after looking into this, I now think it is basically incorrect to think of this as primarily a “pangolin virus.” The pangolins were a dying canary in a coal mine, and probably caught it from something else that serves as the real reservoir species for this nCOV precursor*.
See: further explanation here