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- Researchers analyzed a sample from a four-year-old boy who needed emergency care in early December 2019 and found the child was infected with a coronavirus strain that was a perfect match to the one from Wuhan.
- The child was infected at least three weeks before China announced that a new infectious illness was found in Wuhan.
- This is the latest in a series of studies that indicate the novel coronavirus was spreading in Europe and America much earlier than believed.
Different research teams from France, Italy, Spain, and the US published a number of independent reports this year indicating that the coronavirus was spreading quietly long before late December. China first announced the discovery of the new coronavirus in late December. Those reports said that the virus was already spreading in Europe and America at the time, which seemed to suggest the virus might have been spreading in Wuhan long before the mid-December 2019 outbreak. Another possible explanation, one that China has been pushing with increased intensity in the past few months, is that the virus came to Wuhan from elsewhere. Even if that’s the case, the SARS-CoV-2 version that sparked the current pandemic has been traced back to China. Also, a massive leak showed China’s various lies and missteps when it was trying to contain the original outbreak.
The studies that looked at the virus's presence in other countries told us that patients in France, Italy, and the US were infected with the novel coronavirus before December 2019, maybe as early as September. Sewage water analysis from Spain and Italy also said the virus was spreading much earlier than initially believed, with a Spanish team saying the virus was present in wastewater in March 2019. Some of these studies were criticized for the data they offered, with scientists asking for more proof the virus had been spreading quietly in communities. Meanwhile, China used the research to attempt to shift the COVID-19 origin story to a different country. Its most recent attempt is a study that says the virus might have arrived in China from the Indian subcontinent.
This brings us to the latest study that could get us closer to the coronavirus’s origin story — a paper from Italy that details a puzzling discovery. Scientists found a perfect match to the Wuhan coronavirus strain in a sample from a child treated back in early December 2019.
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