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China's top respiratory specialist Zhong Nanshan said on January 27 "Though the COVID-19 was first discovered in China, it does not mean that it originated from China" "But that is Chinese for "it originated someplace else, in another country".
He recommended a throat culture and an antibody test, but he also asked what kind of bat had produced the guano. The answer: the rufous horseshoe bat, the same species implicated in the first SARS outbreak.
The hospital called in a pulmonologist, who had played a prominent role in treating SARS patients and would go on to lead an expert panel for China's National Health Commission on COVID-19.