New COVID epidemic: 20,000 years ago (VIDEO)

Queensland University of Technology

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An international study has discovered a coronavirus epidemic broke out in the East Asia region more than 20,000 years ago, with traces of the outbreak evident in the genetic makeup of people from that area.

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