In 2015 a scientist from Uppsala University wrote that the coronavirus would spread throughout the world

The paper below by Carl-Johan Neiderud was published in 2015:

“...originate from the SARS-like coronavirus (SCoV) of bats and reached the human host in China due to hunting and trading of bats for food…The first cases of SARS reportedly occurred in individuals who handled these animals to prepare exotic food, and the virus is thought to have crossed over to their human host (47). SARS could then spread throughout the world...”   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/iee.v5.27060