Introduction
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus was first discovered in December 2019 in China. The virus has spread across the world and killed hundreds, thousands of people. In the U.S accounts for more than 2.4 million of those cases and nearly 125,000 deaths. The COVID-19 virus is difficult to deal with due to it being asymptomatic in the victims. Unlike other common pathogens, patients with COVID-19 can spread the virus for days before showing any symptoms. From the very beginning, people were misled by social media that Chinese food- Bat soup is the responsible cause of the outbreak. It starts from a clip of a girl eating bat soup that went viral on social media during cases of the new coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan; the clip shows a smiling Chinese woman holding a cooked bat on camera before admitting it tastes “like chicken meat.".Therefore, it becomes the target topic of the COVID-19 origin spread. Additionally, the origin of COVID-19 has not been confirmed at this time. False information and fake news began to spread on social media platforms and confuse people.
Research Results
The controversial video has checked on the origin of coronavirus is false. The girl in the clip who was strongly criticized by social media revealed the real story behind it. She reported that the video was filmed in 2016, even before the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. Furthermore, she was a host of an online travel show eating a dish in Palau, an island country located in the western Pacific ocean. The girl is an influencer named Wang Mengyun, is a well-known Chinese travel blogger who explained she wanted to show local culture in the video. Megyn has also reportedly apologized for the footage. “I am sorry, everyone. I should not have eaten a bat,” she said, according to the South China Morning Post. “I had no idea during filming that there was such a virus,” she continued. “I realized it only recently.”. Unfortunately, she is a victim of COVID-19 misinformation spread online about the origin; this created the term “Chinese virus” and racist target Chinese eating habits for the outbreak.
Conclusion
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC). It’s possible to say the bat is carrying out the disease since the Wuhan Seafood Market was initially suspected of the virus’s cause. Especially non-Asians countries, which are not familiar with the culture, will be convinced that eating a bat is a bad idea and cause the disease. Because they never experience it. However, for the virus to jump from animals to humans, the animals have to be carrying it. According to Dr. Lau and colleagues, “No animal samples from the market were reported to be positive for Covid-19”. What’s more, neither the first identified case in a human nor other early patients who visited the market have any conclusive evidence to identify the disease caused by bats. Therefore, the idea that COVID-19 came from the soup bat is absolutely incorrect. The cause is still unknown and has not been revealed by the health public; it will likely take longer to find the disease’s original site. However, even in a worldwide pandemic, there was still false and misinformation with all the resources around the globe, showing how often it occurs in our media today.
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Korin Miller Updated June 26, and Korin Miller. “No, Coronavirus Was Not Caused by ‘Bat Soup’–But Here’s What Researchers Think May Be to Blame.” Health.com, www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus-bat-soup.
