• AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    Wish it was a proper academic paper with citations–kinda annoying having to track down its sources.

    Don’t have time at the moment, but I did grab the paper which shows that the virus could have been present in the US as early as December 13-16 2019 on the west coast:

    https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1004/6012472

    and this NIH study which also showed earlier cases than had been officially confirmed:

    https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/74/4/584/6294073

    • TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.net
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      6 days ago

      I’m on the west coast, and there were murmers of a “cold from hell” going around in Nov/Dec of 2019 until covid was officially recognized in the US around March. One of the first known detections of it was during a flu study during that time. Researchers retested some samples and it showed up. I got hit with something that made me nearly suffocate during that time and it completely freaked me out, and then a month later my roommate who also got sick suffered major organ failure, and later on heart attacks and other relentless vascular problems.