"We were preparing for something like this as it's not a matter of if, it is a matter of when."
— SARS-CoV-2

January 1, 1970

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Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead on Covid-19 talking about the transfer of viruses from animals to humans; quoted in Victoria Gill, "Coronavirus: A hunt for the 'missing link' host species", BBC (4 May 2020)