NIH study suggests coronavirus may have been in U.S. as early as December 2019

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2 thoughts on “NIH study suggests coronavirus may have been in U.S. as early as December 2019

  1. This story first popped up in early 2020, it seams like the February-March-April timeline, and then disappeared just like the lab origin story. I believe it was even a little earlier since there was what was considered a bad cold/flu strain that hit around November 2019. I’ve always thought that was an early strain of Wuhan Coronavirus.

  2. I am pretty convinced I had it around late Dec 2019. I had been in many group situations. Have not been so sick for years. However, no one that I was around that I know got sick after being around me.

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