This is not true. They found Covid 19 antibodies all over Italy in 2019 in blood samples they collected for a different study. It was top notch researchers involved.
From the study:
The Italian researchers’ findings, published by the INT’s scientific magazine Tumori Journal, show 11.6% of 959 healthy volunteers enrolled in a lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020 had developed coronavirus antibodies well before February.
This is not true. They found Covid 19 antibodies all over Italy in 2019 in blood samples they collected for a different study. It was top notch researchers involved.
From the study:
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-timing-idUSKBN27W1J2