A great deal of confusion has been created, because scientists talk about the “new virus” as if they understand its structure and genetic sequence.
No.
They’ve built a hypothetical structure, AS DATA. Nothing more. And then they gibber about what it means.
My aunt studies mosquitoes for a living She should have retired years ago but was working to create a definitive field guide for the government to use in the field of different species based on physical morphology ie how they look. She said the newly trained entomologists could only identify by their DNA sequences after they were ground up and it was taking to long to identify the disease carrying mosquitoes