source for highlighted study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0300891620974755?journalCode=tmja

China also claims to have found a perfect match of the Wuhan strain in Italy predating the first case in Wuhan. I couldn't dig up the exact study so i didn't screenshot it here, but here's a link anyway for completeness.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3113444/coronavirus-italian-scientists-find-perfect-match-wuhan-strain

Even without that though, it's looking pretty likely that COVID-19 actually originated in italy.

edit: found the new study!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33292923/

We describe the earliest evidence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a patient in Italy, ≈3 months before Italy’s first reported COVID-19 case. These findings, in agreement with other evidence of early COVID-19 spread in Europe, advance the beginning of the outbreak to late autumn 2019

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

    It's like to children getting in a fight at school. Teacher sends them to detention and tells them they can go after writing an essay on why fighting is stupid. China sits down and starts writing. The US just cries and yells, "but he started it! but he started it!" We're approaching 300k deaths while China is at 87k cases and only 4,634 deaths. Virus reaching its peak and restrictions are weaker today than in March.