The fact that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 derived from bat coronaviruses highlights inherent issues of the way we interact with the environment. Talha Burki reports.
Researchers examining coronaviruses and bats are used to working with large numbers. A 2017 study of 12 333 bats from Latin America, Africa, and Asia found that almost 9% carried at least one of 91 distinct coronaviruses. The authors estimated that there are at least 3200 coronaviruses that infect bats. Moreover, there are over 1400 species of bat. Figuring out which ones are susceptible to which coronaviruses is no small task. Bats are incredibly varied and successful creatures. In evolutionary terms, fruit-eating bats diverged from insect-eating bats some 50 million years ago.
Again, there has been nothing proven that "bat eating" caused this virus.
There are studies happening all over the world involving bats.
The reason we have a vaccine so quickly is down to the bat studies that were increased after the first SARS virus outbreak.
Educate yourself rather than just being Trump please.