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Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by gowld on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:45PM (#22881438)
That report appears to based on genomic analysis, which obviously only includes cases that were tested, not undocumented transmissions before the discovery.

The article you cite says: "The common ancestor of circulating viruses appears to have emerged in Wuhan, China, in late Nov or early Dec 2019. Accordingly, the majority of sampled and inferred ancestral cases were located in Asia during this early period. "

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Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo... by raphlinus on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:55PM (#22881579)
It samples cases that are detected after the fact, from which they are able to reconstruct the phylogeny with impressive clarity. If you are not familiar with the work of nextstrain.org, I highly recommend it, they are brilliant.
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