COVID Confirmed in 9 US States before Jan 17 2020

[HardToHandle]

Tiptoeing carefully on this topic, the Wall Street Journal will have a story in their Wednesday edition discussing the strong evidence of COVID having global spread in calendar year 2019. Stored US blood samples found evidence of COVID in nine states (California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin) before January 17, 2020.

The US spread of COVID in the fourth quarter of 2019 was strongly suspected in the epidemiological community. There have been some genetic analysis that traced February New York cases to November French cases, but the CDC blood analysis is a rich new source of evidence that indicates the breadth of early spread.

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases -
Serologic testing of U.S. blood donations to identify SARS-CoV-2-reactive antibodies: December 2019-January 2020
Serologic testing of U.S. blood donations to identify SARS-CoV-2-reactive antibodies: December 2019-January 2020 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic

Passing on as this is a salient fact. Please refrain from the political comments.

 

[Racer X]

Something blew through my partner's preschool/daycare first week of January here in Seattle. Classic Covid symptoms, especially feeling like an elephant is sitting on your chest. Teachers and parents. The kids shrugged it off fairly easily. My partner felt like the walking gasping dead for about a week. Took over a month to shake it all off. The flu isn't like that, is it.....

With so many tech workers here in Seattle from China, or having friends and relatives in China, and the University of Washington here in Seattle with numerous programs specifically catering to Asian student, I REFUSE to believe no one brought it to Seattle back during the holiday season 2019.

 

[Rudi]

The Chi-coms did a great job of infecting the world. Makes you wonder what they will do next?

 

[arjay]

It makes one wonder. I stroked back in January,yet I have few of the risk factors,moderately high cholestrol,thin,athletic, only one spot of plaque buildup,but not in an artery that would cause that...
Who knows?

 

[mtgianni]

It is covid 19 not covid 20.