First COVID-19 case could have hit China in Oct 2019: Study

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SHANGHAI: The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was ...

China's first official COVID-19 case was in December 2019 and was linked to Wuhan's Huanan seafood market.However, some early cases had no known connection with Huanan, implying that SARS-CoV-2 was already circulating before it reached the market.

In a paper released this week as a preprint, Jessie Bloom of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle recovered deleted sequencing data from the early cases of COVID-19 in China. "Why would scientists ask international databases to delete key data that informs us about how COVID-19 began in Wuhan?" said Alina Chan, a researcher with Harvard's Broad Institute, writing on Twitter."That's the question you can answer for yourselves."

 

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Brought in by US soldiers participating in Wuhan military games. Open up Fort Detrick to international probe for possibly lab leak of coronavirus!

Having New virus is just part of evolution. Nature will produce new virus and animals as time goes by. No worries about it.

And you ask why all data was erased. Who has ability to do this and why?😉 One country - US - the most militarised nation on earth. Reason why Pompeo didn’t want an investigation into the matter. Enough BS and conspiracy drivel. Look at US & how the variants spread & from whom😉

Not rocket science. Developed in US lab at Fort Detrick. Lab closed suddenly. Then taken to Italian NATO base where it was deployed in China through the & prior to the military games venue attended in Wuhan in Oct. Stop trying to jam a square peg in a round hole hoping it’ll take

Covid-19 didn’t start in China in Dec 2019, as has been widely reported till now. This virus was first infecting people in Italy, by no later than Sept 2019, according to researchers at the Italian Association for Cancer Research, and published on 11 Nov😉

ReporterPhoenix People in the LSU area (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) had a remarkably COVID-19-like illness in November-December 2019. Lots of international students at LSU. Only a jet ride away. We'll be learning more and more about how early it arrived, I think.

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