REPORT: COVID-19 Was In Italy Prior To China Outbreak


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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...