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From what I know, there were two bioinformatics studies in mid 2020 (link below) that deemed pangolin as unlikely to be the intermediate host facilitating the spillover from bats to humans. The main reason is that the SARS-related coronavirus found in pangolins is not the SARS-CoV-2 precursor.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1008421#abstract0

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4

After that, the pangolin discussion seems to have shut down, as far as I'm aware.

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Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)
Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)

Written by Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)

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