China Study Claims COVID-19 Began Spreading In September 2019


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The COVID-19 virus, which has killed more than four million people worldwide, may have begun spreading in the United States in September 2019, according to a study conducted by Chinese researchers. In a new paper published on preprint server Chinese Academy of Sciences, a group of Chinese researchers said there was a 50% chance that the first COVID-19 case occurred in the U.S. between August and October 2019 and spread in the country in September of the same year. In the study, the researchers reviewed the public data on diagnoses, tests and deaths from 12 representative regions in the U.S....