Looking at how current pandemic started from making of a hybrid of the SARS and an ACE2 using virus back in 2013 and that work's continuation in Wuhan, i'd say that that is the money quote here:
"Our study demonstrates the first case of ACE2 usage in MERS-related viruses, shedding light on a potential bio-safety threat of the human emergence of an ACE2 using 'MERS-CoV-2' with both high fatality and transmission rate."
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