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babylonsister

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Tue Dec 1, 2020, 09:10 AM Dec 2020

Virus Has Been In U.S. for Nearly a Year [View all]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/12/01/virus-has-been-in-u-s-for-nearly-a-year/

Virus Has Been In U.S. for Nearly a Year
December 1, 2020 at 7:39 am EST By Taegan Goddard


“The new coronavirus infected people in the U.S. in mid-December 2019, a few weeks before it was officially identified in China and about a month earlier than public health authorities found the first U.S. case,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The findings significantly strengthen evidence suggesting the virus was spreading around the world well before public health authorities and researchers became aware, upending initial thinking about how early and quickly it emerged.”
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