NEW—The coronavirus was in the US in mid-December 2019, a few weeks before it was officially identified in China, according to CDC analysis of blood donation samples. This also matches waste water analysis that found virus earlier in Europe.
#COVID19https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-likely-in-u-s-in-mid-december-2019-cdc-scientists-report-11606782449 …
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Sadly, yes, the breathlessness gets a bit wearing. More caution, less speed and cheerleading, please.
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We know him, I take it with a healthy dose of salt
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The study was peer review published in a medical journal—not merely a preprint. And was by CDC scientists. It has credibility. And multiple outlets are reporting it. And it has support from waste water in Italy in mid Dec that it was outside China already.https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-12-01-20-intl/h_5e4e8b4b5f8f0b44c5286c5f05b483bb …
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I'm well aware of that. Your unreflective tweeting is unhelpful and uninformative. The study itself—which you don't bother to read, apparently—notes important limitations and the scientific community is discussing it with proper context. Try reading and seeing what experts say?
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He’s noting shortcomings, you’re projecting a lack of rigor where it doesn’t exist. This is a crisis, we can’t wait for all scientific controversy to be resolved when information valuable to the public is at stake. One American is dying every minute.
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That's funny. Every vaccine press release is treated as ironclad scientific fact, and the greatest medical discovery of all time, and is touted uncritically all over twitter. This is a peer reviewed study with CDC researchers.
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Key—R0 also vastly underestimated if cases underreported.
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by December 18, over two months before the first case was detected, a national study of waste water has found in Milan & Turin. Oct & Nov 2019 water samples negative.