• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah yeah what the fuck happened with that? There was also some articles saying it might have been in Italy? I haven't bothered to look at it in the last year+

      • Ursus_Hexagonus [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Reuters wrote

        The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy in September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that it might have spread beyond China earlier than thought.

        [...]

        The WHO said it would contact the paper’s authors “to discuss and arrange for further analyses of available samples and verification of the neutralization results”.

        But I can't find any follow-up articles about how that went

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          signaling that it might have spread beyond China earlier than thought.

          Lol imagine drawing this conclusion from that fact. Like discovering a printing press that predates Gutenberg and concluding that printing must have spread from Europe earlier than thought.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      pretty obviously it was a natural virus and probably did originate from china as it's from a family of viruses native to east asia and the initial large spread started in China. maybe there were traces of it in Europe before it spread big ut that doesn't really mean anything