COVID-19 was circulating in Italy since September 2019, months before reports of an outbreak in Wuhan, a research study conducted in Milan shows.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the new coronavirus and COVID-19, the respiratory disease it causes, was completely unknown prior to reports from Wuhan in December about a virus outbreak.
However, an Italian study that analyzed blood samples of 959 healthy volunteers across Italy who participated in a lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020 found something very intriguing.
The study, published in the Tumori Journal, detected COVID-19 antibodies in 11.6% of the samples, with 44% of the samples dating from well before February 21, the date the first COVID-19 patient was discovered in Milan, in the northern Lombardy area.
The study, which researchers say “may reshape the history of the pandemic” reveals that COVID-19 was being silently transmitted in Milan before anyone had even heard of it.
“This study shows an unexpected very early circulation of SARS-CoV-2 among asymptomatic individuals in Italy several months before the first patient was identified,” the study’s researchers wrote.
A cluster of pneumonia cases was reported by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission to the WHO on December 31, 2019, but it’s possible that the transmission of the virus began as early as December 10, according to The Wall Street Journal.
A similar research study, carried out by the University of Siena called Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the pre-pandemic period in Italy found that Italian residents had coronavirus antibodies in the first week of October, which means that they contracted the virus in September.
Testing of old blood samples in France also showed that the coronavirus was present in the country earlier than thought. Following the release of the findings from France, the WHO has urged all countries to carry out similar research studies.
“This gives a whole new picture on everything,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said at a UN briefing in May. “The findings help to better understand the potential virus circulation of Covid-19.”
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So, did China spread the virus or not?
That’s crazy. That says a lot about what’s truly going on.
You mean the “Kung flu” isn’t true??
So let me be very clear:- This is the “Wuhan Virus” A.K.A. the “Chinese Virus” as so correctly defined by President Donald Trump, who was duly reelected.
Italy buried their heads in the sand, as they had some important conventions & concerts, and didn’t want to loose money, by turning away the Chinese participants, but knew full well about this Wuhan Virus, and hoped for the best.
China of-course didn’t care, as they weren’t admitting to this Chinese Virus.
This isn’t only the case in Italy. I heard reports weeks ago that the virus was present in NYC much before February or March also. It’s still possible that it originated in China, but the fact seems to be that it was circulation way before we became aware of it.
> lakewoodbubby
> it was circulation way before we became aware of it
There was once, a really long time ago, a TV comedy called “My favorite Martian” about a Martian marooned (crashed) on earth who had to hide his identity form the masses. In one comic exchange, the Martian remarks that he (the Martian) has a nephew back at Mars who is so smart that he invented a cure for a disease that did not yet exist (cue laughter). Even as a small child I understood the joke. It is self-evident that first comes the disease and then comes the cure. Or in this case, first comes the spread of the disease before the disease can show up.
It is well documented that Milan and other areas in Northern Italy have the densest 5G coverage (at least as of March to April of 2020), and Northern Italy has twenty-two times as many coronavirus cases as Rome in these time periods. The situation is probably not that different currently. China also did very large scale 5G rollouts in September, November and February–each of which correlated with significant spikes in Corona cases.
5G is of tremendous magnitude, because if the world has decided it wants faster phones, self-driving cars, and the ‘internet-of-things’ generally, we have to be exposed to immune-system weakening EMF radiation, which diminishes the quality of our health–something as well, that vaccines don’t actually cure, even if you believe that they are helpful to mitigate exposure symptoms.