The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy since September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that COVID-19 might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought.
Those are all valid questions that would need to be examined, hence the reason for scientist to be hesitant to upend the entire timeline of events.
But how did it not affect the health care system for so many months?
People would just die i guess, and have it categorised as unknown pneumonia related death.
Did the virus mutate into something more lethal in 2020?
Entirely likely, we knew of 14 mutations back in may, some more lethal than others.
Does this mean its still mutating?
Yes, viruses are always mutating, it's not necessarily that dangerous as they usually become less dangerous over time, back in may the European variant was classified as more infectious than the one detected in China. The recent danish mink genocide was about this, fear that crossing the human to animal back to human threshold would create a new more lethal variant.
Those are all valid questions that would need to be examined, hence the reason for scientist to be hesitant to upend the entire timeline of events.
People would just die i guess, and have it categorised as unknown pneumonia related death.
Entirely likely, we knew of 14 mutations back in may, some more lethal than others.
Yes, viruses are always mutating, it's not necessarily that dangerous as they usually become less dangerous over time, back in may the European variant was classified as more infectious than the one detected in China. The recent danish mink genocide was about this, fear that crossing the human to animal back to human threshold would create a new more lethal variant.