The following article from 2015 was cited on a scientific community bulletin board as background on the propensity of Coronavirus as a family to mutate and reassort their genes. The article predicted that something like COVID-19 would occur.
"A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence", Menachery, V., Yount, B., Debbink, K. et al. A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for
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