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2020-04-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Researchers Release Report Claiming China's Outbreak May Have Started in September

[Western Journal] A new study estimates that the first human cases of COVID-19 in China may have occurred as early as September.

China has admitted that the disease was present in Wuhan, the capital of its Hubei Province, in December, although for weeks into January it denied that human-to-human transmission had already taken place.

Some reports have said that, according to internal Chinese documents not shared with the West, cases of the virus existed as early as November.

But now, according to the U.K. Daily Star, a University of Cambridge geneticist and his research team are arguing even that timetable could be off by as much as two months.

All viruses mutate. Cambridge geneticist Peter Forster has been tracking the subtle mutations of the novel coronavirus, hoping to find — based on the DNA of the virus in those who were infected in December — how far back the trail of mutations will lead him.

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"The virus may have mutated into its final ’human-efficient’ form months ago, but stayed inside a bat or other animal or even human for several months without infecting other individuals," Forster said, according to the Daily Star.

"Then, it started infecting and spreading among humans between September 13 and December 7," he said.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-20 01:17|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Chinese people bred huge wild RATS for their 'nutritious' meat, came up with dozens of ways to cook them and celebrated '100 reasons to eat them' - before they were banned due to coronavirus

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-20 10:13|| 2020-04-20 10:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't the Year of the Rat generally not a good year?

Posted by Clem 2020-04-20 11:24|| 2020-04-20 11:24|| Front Page Top

#3 All of these reports come off as CCD misinformation to me.
Chinese experts that were later disappeared indicate they believed the thing started in Wuhan near that wetmarket/lab and I have no reason to doubt them because some western folks using second hand data provided by the Chinese say so.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-04-20 15:39|| 2020-04-20 15:39|| Front Page Top

#4 All of these reports come off as CCD misinformation to me

???

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-20 15:56|| 2020-04-20 15:56|| Front Page Top

#5 I suspect that was a typo for CDC, g(r)omgoru.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-20 17:15|| 2020-04-20 17:15|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Not CCP?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-20 17:17|| 2020-04-20 17:17|| Front Page Top

#7 #1 Never read the Hornblower books, Skid?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-20 17:20|| 2020-04-20 17:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Not CCP?

An even better possibility. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-20 17:23|| 2020-04-20 17:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Not CCP?

That'd be my guess. But Center for Disease Propaganda (CDP) also works.

Posted by SteveS 2020-04-20 18:44|| 2020-04-20 18:44|| Front Page Top

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