Unwarranted Exclusion of Intermediate Lineage A-B SARS-CoV-2 Genomes Is Inconsistent with the Two-Spillover Hypothesis of the Origin of COVID-19
Pekar et Holiday Kits al.(2022) propose that SARS-CoV-2 was a zoonotic spillover that first infected humans in the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China.They propose that there were two separate spillovers of the closely related lineages A and lineage B in a short period of time.The two lineages are differentiated by two SNVs; hence, a single-SNV A