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India-Pakistan
Indian variant of the virus is DNA/RNA different and seems optimized for Indians.
2020-03-29
[Twitter and bixRXiv]
Link goes to the actual pdf of the paper not to some news site.
Posted by:3dc

#9  By some accounts, it's out of control in China. Still, that could be an unforeseen consequence.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-03-29 17:45  

#8  Accident or act of war?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-03-29 17:10  

#7  Any more questions on this thing, this monster being a carefully crafted biological weapon?

Nope.
Posted by: Iblis   2020-03-29 13:36  

#6  It's not really surprising that in a given population a variant that reproduces better in that population is more prominent.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-03-29 12:30  

#5  What would Occam say?
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-29 11:12  

#4  Virus mutating as to not kill host(s)?

Although the 'escaped/released from the lab' intent scenario has not left me.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-03-29 10:36  

#3  The virus' preference for older people, men, and pre-existing condition 'cloaking' resonates a bit loader.

Extremely selective horseshoe bats, or a laboratory assisted anomaly ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-03-29 09:38  

#2  Beginning to remind me of "Regenesis"
A Canadian TV series set in Toronto.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-03-29 09:35  

#1  Any more questions on this thing, this monster being a carefully crafted biological weapon?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2020-03-29 09:34  

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