I think it's not impossible that he was actually the first. Consider @trvrb's genomic datasets. But it's also possible that there were some earlier cases. December isn't impossible, but seems too early to me.
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December is possible but would be extremely startling. One would expect the virus to have been even that much more established outside of Hubei within China, by comparison.
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