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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by jokoon on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:53AM (#27047657)
It made some news, it was suspicious cases of pneumonia in china. First time I read the article, I was like "uh oh". It did not make the headlines though, but it was still noticeable. I think I spotted it on reddit or hackernews. Maybe the article was on BBC? BBC has quite a good world coverage.

I guess you can google news by year. I'm very certain those articles exist. Next time I heard about it, it was getting much worse.

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by oblio on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:03AM (#27047718)
I heard about Covid in January. It was still kind of localized, at the time, we didn't know much about it.

Around mid-February I saw in the news that there was a somewhat big cluster in Italy and realized that everyone was screwed :-(

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by ekianjo on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:54AM (#27048038)
The first news about COVID were at the very end of december 2019 at least on mainstream media.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by oblio on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:03AM (#27049319)
True, but between actually seeing the first news and figuring out: "Oh my God, this is going to be a global pandemic!", it took me a while. I think most people were in the same boat.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:14PM (#27052700)
My wife had taken a couple infectious diseases courses as part of her anthropology degree so she was tuned into this whole thing and the first article she read about it end of December I remember her freaking out. "Oh, great, another SARS-type virus has been found, we're screwed" and me being like "honey, you're being paranoid. relax."

I hate it when she's right.

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by Spare_account on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:13AM (#27048134)
https://www.google.com/search?q=suspicious+cases+of+pneumoni...

This URL searches Google for your phrase "suspicious cases of pneumonia in china" filtered for results between Oct 1 and Nov 30 2019

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by Leherenn on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:54AM (#27048764)
Some months back, I had the same recollection: an article about suspicious pneumonia cases in China published by the BBC sometimes in December. I did some searching, and nothing, I think the first article is from the 31st of December. Funny how the mind can trick you, maybe it is linked to "Déjà vu" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by samirelanduk on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:54AM (#27047669)
I don't think there were any reports online until December 31st.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by satysin on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:47AM (#27048710)
I journal daily and like to capture the news among my daily record. The first time I found COVID/Coronavirus mentioned by BBC News was January 3rd 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50984025.

It is of course possible I missed a story but before January 3rd there was little to no mainstream news coverage. It is quite frustrating to find accurate articles now as many sites are falsely returned in date range Google searches. All "mystery flu-like pneumonia" stories I've found reported in December 2019 are medical news so it is extremely unlikely someone would come across such an article as part of normal news reading.

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by phyalow on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @08:07AM (#27048864)
On January the 4th their were posters (printed A4) up on Public Transport in Hong Kong. I remember thinking it was very strange - I had heard a story on the BBC world service the night before. The posters warned of a "Novel Pneumonia from Southern China". How the world changed...
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by satysin on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @08:26AM (#27049007)
How it changed indeed! Reading my journal for the first four months of 2020 is fascinating. I must have read over those first few months ten times since. So much has happened with advice and guidance changing as we learn more about the virus and the disease. So much mis- and disinformation. Crazy behaviours all over. I am so glad I keep a journal as it will be quite something to read back in a decade or two.

Especially for my 8 year old son. He is old enough to understand things are not normal but young enough to not fully understand the gravity of the situation or have memories of much outside of his little bubble.

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by M2Ys4U on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:35AM (#27049616)
The BBC were definitely covering it in late December 2019 - I distinctly remember the TV coverage on New Years Eve.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by satysin on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:49AM (#27049764)
If you have any links to articles or news reports I would be very grateful.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by s1artibartfast on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:05PM (#27054979)
Here is a western news report from mid November: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/china-bubonic-plague-ou...
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by dqv on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:39PM (#27053047)
If you can get access to an archive of South China Morning Post that hasn't been scrubbed, the term you want to search for is "mystery pneumonia" or "sars like".
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by satysin on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @02:00PM (#27053342)
Thanks, I have several Chinese/Asia news sources from December however I was asking for a BBC reference as M2Ys4U mentioned it was reported by the BBC on New Years Eve and the earliest I have is January 3rd.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by dboreham on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:20AM (#27050181)
btw this is where the "19" comes from.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by carlmr on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:07AM (#27047747)
According to Giuseppe Remuzzi there were strange pneumonia cases in northern Italy in November 2019, but as far as I can see they were not reported until March 2020.

Apart from that I remember the first reports from China in December 2019.

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by hattmall on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:05AM (#27047730)
I remember hearing about it prior to that as well. I remember because I was building a shed and had someone helping me who was talking about it and it was prior to the new year, early December at the latest. He heard about it on a Doomsday type podcast.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by asenna on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:08AM (#27047750)
I remember reading about it end of December 2019. I believe it was a Reddit thread with some worrying reports on the ground.
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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by herbst on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:01AM (#27047703)
I found one (english) Timeline that Starts before 31.

https://bfpg.co.uk/2020/04/covid-19-timeline/

I too remember talking about it on Christmas.

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Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada by awd on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:17AM (#27047804)
Funnily enough, there were some memes about it before December 17th 2019. Comparing some disease from 1920 with 2020.
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