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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I have to agree with Tufekci. I love your content, but you do have a tendency to treat studies like "new discoveries" rather than place them in context.
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I sense you’re also upset with how the WSJ and CNN wrote the headline. That is something I don’t control, but I empathize. I’ve been on the reverse side in which major news reported wrong analyses by CDC authors on overweight and mortality, which I was upset. But frustrated...
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...but I was frustrated with the scientists who wrote the bad paper and misleading press release than the lay journalists who just wrote it up. So I lay the fault with the authors and journal editors not the journalists or twitter sharers.
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I find it helpful to hear the latest from Eric during this pandemic when so much was uncertain. Good reminder from Tufekci that this is Twitter and these studies are still unfolding so take it al
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Key—R0 also vastly underestimated if cases underreported.
BREAKING: The
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.
