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“American medics officially registered their first Covid-19 patient on January 19, 2020, but the findings in a paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases suggest the virus may have been circulating in the US prior to that.”

“The researchers studied almost 7,400 blood donations made in nine US states between December 13, 2019 and January 17, 2020. Evidence of Covid-19 bodies antibodies, the presence of which suggest a person had contact with the virus, were present in 106 of those samples, according to the study.”

“This means coronavirus could have been in the US a month before it saw its first confirmed case, and weeks before the Chinese authorities announced the infection in the city of Wuhan.”

  • opposide [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Oh trust me I know it doesn’t matter it would just be funny :party-sicko:

    • Woly [any]
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      4 years ago

      It would shut a lot of people up I'll give you that :cat-vibing:

      • shitstorm [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        No it wouldn't. If you say anything remotely positive about China's response to COVID they just straight up say China is lying. "Well if it was in the US in Dec 2019 then it was definitely in China way before that."

        • spinachupper [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's always either that or China's response is just a fortunate side effect of them being "authoritarian" so our freedom-loving government being unable to just pay people to stay the fuck home is an unlucky consequence of our magnificent freedom.

            • spinachupper [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              I'm not sure what this is referring to, but I'm guessing the conspiracy theory is that China welded the research labs' doors shut so its scientists couldn't warn the world of COVID?

              • shitstorm [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Nah, welding doors shut of apartments to enforce quarantine.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        What do you think the C in CDC stands for idiot? It's the China Department of China. It's a propaganda organization. You're an idiot for trusting it.