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14. Probably not. It is believed to have come from pangolins according to a paper in Nature Medicine:
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 10:10 AM
Apr 2020
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 (Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes & Robert F. Garry, Nature Medicine (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9)

Pangolins are widely trafficked in China for, ironically, "traditional medicine" purposes, since the scales of the animal are believe in folk medicine to have curative properties.

Pangolin "products" were being sold in the Wuhan market from which the virus is believed to have spread.

We know these species popularly as "anteaters."

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