Coronaviruses have received global public health concern since 2003,
- after an outbreak caused by SARS-CoV (SARS) emerged in China.
- Later 2012, the Middle-East respiratory syndrome (MERS) spread in Saudi Arabia, caused by MERS-CoV – WHO’s first IHR emergency committee meeting was held July 9, 2013
- In 2020 the COVID-19 outbreak starts in Wuhan, China caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus resulting in the WHO declaring a pandemic.
All of these human coronaviruses belongs to the genus betacoronaviruses (β-CoVs) which are said to have the “ability to genetically evolve inside the host body and then in the intermediate putative host, which is, in turn, the suitable media to jump towards humans.”
“Since 1960, 30% of respiratory illnesses were caused by the pneumotropic coronaviruses…and were deemed to be nonfatal, until [Nov] 2002” when SARS “appeared in Guangdong province, China.”
Coronaviruses are the most recombinogenic and mutative known viruses [1, 2, 3]. It is known that RNA “produce large numbers of progeny” which is likely “the key to their evolutionary survival”…buffering them from “deleterious mutations” and allowing “advantageous mutations” to continue on. [4]
A comment by an Irish laboratory expert in June 2020, warned that now a “pattern” of 3 viruses of this kind have “emerged” expect “these viruses…to cross species boundaries again” in the future. A precedent for the push for a “pan coronavirus vaccine” which Peter Dazak “prophesied” in 2016.