Why not? Just because it doesn't match up, or is there a deeper reason?
Why not? Just because it doesn't match up, or is there a deeper reason?
Reverse transcription only happens when a reverse transcriptase (found in retro-viruses, e.g. HIV-1, HIV-2, Hepatitis B Virus etc) does that and the RNA is the direct viral genome or a transcript of the viral DNA (for DNA viruses). They have special marker sequences at either end to facilitate this (search for terminal repeats)
SARS-CoV-2 is not a retrovirus.
eukaryotes use splicing mechanisms that copy/delete/replicate DNA from one locus to another, this is more reliable as mRNA are unstable and become damaged quickly. cytoplasmic mRNA is not of fidelity and does not reverse compile into the dna sourcecode, or it would produce massive errors and corrupt the DNA.