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Fits and starts: SARS-CoV-2’s origin

The Intelligence from The Economist

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Is There a Virus in Wohan?

Italian researchers working in a laboratory in lombardy have been looking at samples of patients presented with a rash towards the end of 20 19. They've gone through these samples, and they've identified 13 people in the pre pandemic period prior to december 20 19,. who have evidence for sascov in these samples. And the earliest was in september twelfth. So covid was circulating earlier, much earlier than we thought.

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