Among the torrent of news concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, we are gradually learning the origin story of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Scientists cannot say with certainty where and how SARS-CoV-2 was initially transmitted to humans, but we do know that the first cases were recorded from people visiting a “wet market” (seafood markets that also sell wild and farmed animals for food) in Wuhan, China and that the virus is similar to a coronavirus found in bats. Viruses like these are known to jump from bats to humans, often by an intermediary species.