French Doctors Find COVID Case From December — A Month Before 1st Known Case There

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The first cases of the coronavirus in France existed back in December — a month earlier than was previously known, researchers say.

Dr. Yves Cohen, head of emergency medicine at Avicenne and Jean-Verdier hospitals near Paris, said that he and other doctors made the discovery after they retested samples from patients with influenza-like illnesses who had been in intensive care units between early December and mid-January.."In April, we defrosted the samples we had stored, and we tested them again, but this time for traces of COVID-19.

Hammar was tested on Dec. 27. Because the symptoms of COVID typically take 5 to 14 days to appear, Cohen believes Hammar was infected between Dec. 14 and Dec. 22. Cohen says researchers will now study the genetic code of the virus that infected Hammar, to see if it can be linked to other samples analyzed in China. If a link is found to a different kind of coronavirus than was previously identified in France, it would have important implications, he said:"It would point to different contamination sources worldwide."

 

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Nice to see Nakedly Progressive Radio™ finally catching on. Now do a bit of research into California, and people who were sick with a horrible flu like sickness as far back as November.

I bet it was in the US even earlier

I keep saying the same is true for US.

It was in China last fall, air travel was still common place to/from everywhere

Yep I’m pretty sure I had it in Dec/Jan. All the same symptoms.

There are going to find out that it was here around September of 2019!

It was here before January

We’re going to see more and more of this. I think my boyfriend and I may have had it early December when we were living in NYC. No serology testing readily available here in SoCal at the moment to know with certainty.

Tomorrow’s Trump press conference might mention frogs. 🐸

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