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How do we know that covid hasn't been around for years, decades or longer? we just discovered it, but doesn't mean it didn't exist right? don't hundrends of thousands of people die every year from the flu and respitory diseases; maybe it's covid?
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No. It is a different virus causing a respiratory disease
Answered 12/29/2021
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Corona viruses have been around, probably for thousands of years in bats. What is called SARS CoV-2 moved to humans recently.
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