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Re:Amount of Covid found in the wastewater in Boston by a45a33s on Monday December 06, 2021 @06:37PM (#29467225)
thats an assumption that we have no way of confirming
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Re:Amount of Covid found in the wastewater in Boston by ceejayoz on Monday December 06, 2021 @06:44PM (#29467308)
It's a very safe assumption.

We can look at excess deaths (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm) and the speed and locations it spread around the world and be fairly certain that if the virus were here in significant quantities in 2019 we'd have seen signs of it.

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