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Molecular dating studies place a hard limit on index cases at October 2019. Anything earlier and the virus should have mutated more than it has.

Someone who broke into a Wuhan coronavirus research lab in summer 2019 and broke containment of our hypothetical SARS-CoV-2 precursor virus samples would have been infected too early for our timeline.

>>kmeist+(OP)
Might find that October 2019 hard limit may change.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-tim...