'The ability to test possible cases has only ramped up in the last few months, so many people who ought to have been tested were not tested,' one expert told Newsweek.
Those individuals would likely have been infected in mid-January. Previously, the first reported case in the U.S. had been February 26."A 42-year-old fisherman visited the emergency department of a hospital near the French capital of Paris on December 27, 2019, suffering from a cough, headache, and a fever, according to an article published in the
. He was also coughing up blood. At the time, the patient's spit did not test positive for a specific pathogen, and he was treated in intensive care until December 29. The patient had notsince he visited Algeria in August 2019. His child first came down with flu-like symptoms before he fell ill.-19 outbreak started in China, Europe was dealing with seasonal flu.
A Golden Statue at the Trocadero square wears a protective mask during the COVID-19 pandemic near the Eiffel tower on May 03, 2020 in Paris, France.Experts not involved in the study said the claim is interesting but should be viewed with caution. Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, U.K., said in a statement:"It's not impossible that it was an early introduction, but the evidence isn't conclusive by any means.
Stephen Griffin, associate professor at the U.K's Leeds Institute of Medical Research, said the finding is"potentially important," but said a number of steps need to be taken, including mapping the genome of the virus in the sample and comparing it to other SARS--2 samples, to confirm the report. Until then"we must be cautious when interpreting these findings," he said.
Italian researchers planned to investigate whether a higher than normal number of severe pneumonia and flu cases in the Lombardy region between October and December were in fact
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