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Is there a credible reason why SARS and COVID both came from the same country?

The right official response would've been to not start a cover up (and the rest of the world could've hopefully prepared better). Even the WHO was carrying water for China in Feb 2020.

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Because that coronavirus in endemic to bat populations in that part of China. Covid19, for layman's purposes, is basically slightly mutated SARS, and is called SARS-CoV-2. That's why the virology lab is in Wuhan.

Yes, the reason is that a fifth of the world population lives there.

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