The key characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infection of humans and of the city of Wuhan that made a pandemic inevitable and unavoidable

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Issue		BIO Web Conf. Volume 61, 2023 6^th International Conference on Frontiers of Biological Sciences and Engineering (FBSE 2023)


Article Number		01028
Number of page(s)		5
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20236101028
Published online		21 June 2023

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