China has had 85,915 total cases ever

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    it's not quite as cut and dried as started in Barcelona afaik, there was a sample hit in Barcelona, and also hits in early 2019 in Italy and Brazil, but everything is being peer reviewed still I guess:

    https://www.darkdaily.com/studies-finding-remnants-of-sars-cov-2-in-sewage-suggest-covid-19-may-not-have-originated-at-wuhan-market-some-scientists-dispute-the-findings/

    but it makes blaming China a lot sillier

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It's highly likely those studies are gonna be retracted tbh. Covid appearing months before in highly dense areas without causing spikes in deaths or pneumonia really doesn't make sense. It's more likely they found fragments of another coronavirus.