Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the 'bomb' in Wuhan market

Re:Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the... by curmudgeon22 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:32AM (#26647044)

I’m curious what people make of coronavirus antibodies being detected in Italy in September 2019: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/coronavirus-italy-cov...

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Re:Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the... by adrianb on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:21AM (#26647670)

The paper has earned an expression of concern regarding its peer review process, I don't think many scientists rely on it at the moment:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620987756

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Re:Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:37AM (#26647112)

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-circulating-italy-ea...

There's some good points about jumping to conclusions in this article.

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Re:Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the... by curmudgeon22 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:51AM (#26647278)

Interesting, thanks for the link. The livescience article mentions the possibility of false positives and doing different types of antibody testing to confirm, not only with potential WHO involvement. Do you know if there was any further testing? A quick search didn’t yield helpful results.

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