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Could the novel coronavirus actually be a bird flu and not a coronavirus?
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No: The sequences of the genomes of both viruses are known and these two are very different.
Answered 5/20/2020
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No evidence for this: It may however be associated with the Chinese Horseshoe bat. It is a beta coronavirus.
Answered 5/20/2020
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