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Studying the Origin of COVID-19 from a Systematic Perspective
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: Received: 7 April 2020 / Approved: 8 April 2020 / Online: 8 April 2020 (11:31:35 CEST)
How to cite: Wang, Z. Studying the Origin of COVID-19 from a Systematic Perspective. Preprints 2020, 2020040125 Wang, Z. Studying the Origin of COVID-19 from a Systematic Perspective. Preprints 2020, 2020040125
Abstract
The new coronavirus is very likely to already exist in the complex system of human society, including the population and the surrounding environments. Therefore, the research focus of the origin of COVID-19 should be shifted from how wild animals spread it to humans to how it was triggered by complex natural, social, and living systems. We advocate three levels of attribution (i.e., the source of the virus), inducement (i.e., the incentive factors triggering the outbreak), and cause (i.e., the birth of the virus) to reveal the origin of COVID-19 from the shallower to the deeper. It not only meets the urgent needs of short-term prevention and control, but also provides technical weapons for the long-term fight against emerging viruses.
Keywords
COVID-19; origin; incentive factors of the outbreak; systematic perspective
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Virology
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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