True.
Plenty of evidence it can use animals as a ‘pool’ to survive in.
But....
That also means there’s a good chance efforts to defeat it will make for success defeating many coronaviruses!
We may come out with a net advance in human lifetimes.
And the key to drying up the pool is preventing contact with horseshoe bats in China.
The persistence of the Chinese in trapping and selling those animals is what keeps bringing this virus into human populations.
Eliminate that and stays there.