Wandering Monk
Well-Known Member
The lab leak story is back in the news big time, but I have not heard any speculation about when this happened. The earliest reports of the outbreak came in December 2019 in Wuhan.
BUT, recently Italian researchers looked at stored blood samples cancer patients in Italy. More than 130 samples found Covid, the earliest in a sample taken in September 2019. It was already circulating then.
COVID-19 Circulated in Italy Earlier Than Thought
Spanish sewage facilities also has samples from 2019 and these were also checked recently and Covid-19 was found in a sample collected in MARCH 2019.
Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 sewage sample, Spanish study shows
Now, unless you want to propose a lab leak earlier that somehow found its way to Europe, you would have to say it happened PRIOR to March 2019. I have not yet heard any suggestion of a leak that early.
BUT, recently Italian researchers looked at stored blood samples cancer patients in Italy. More than 130 samples found Covid, the earliest in a sample taken in September 2019. It was already circulating then.
COVID-19 Circulated in Italy Earlier Than Thought
Spanish sewage facilities also has samples from 2019 and these were also checked recently and Covid-19 was found in a sample collected in MARCH 2019.
Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 sewage sample, Spanish study shows
Now, unless you want to propose a lab leak earlier that somehow found its way to Europe, you would have to say it happened PRIOR to March 2019. I have not yet heard any suggestion of a leak that early.