SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019

Re:SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late Decemb... by yomly on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @05:23AM (#23078081)

Actually a personal friend who is a doctor on the frontline in Paris saw mobile morgues back in late March.

So I am capable of personally falsifying your statement:

>But the response in New York (with mobile morgues) wasn't reported anywhere else.

I lack a citation but I'm not really trying to prove anything either. I don't think New York is isolated. Lombardy seems to be stricken pretty hard, and it's hard for us to know what it was truly like in Wuhan.

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Re:SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late Decemb... by lbeltrame on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @05:41AM (#23078183)

Speaking for Italy: at least part of the high number of deaths might be traced back to hospital infections (such as a massive outbreak in the hospital of Alzano Lombardo, which initially was kept open after a very brief closure) which of course targeted more vulnerable people.

Also nursing care homes make up a significant part of the deaths: some infected patients from elsewhere were put there under the "promise" of keeping them separate from the others, and you can imagine what happened later.

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