FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus , which was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China, is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 29, 2020. Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM/CDC/Handout via REUTERS.
The University of Barcelona team, who had been testing waste water since mid-April this year to identify potential new outbreaks, decided to also run tests on older samples. Then they ran tests on samples taken between January 2018 and December 2019 and found the presence of the virus genome in one of them, collected on March 12, 2019.
“When it’s just one result, you always want more data, more studies, more samples to confirm it and rule out a laboratory error or a methodological problem,” he said.
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america reported unknow respiratory decease and blame it on vaping in 2019 and the China unfortunately discovered it and expose to the world.
All these people who are in denial...
JFGariepy Soo, what are the implications with this information?
If this report were true, and we know that the coronavirus is deadly contagious, how is it possible that there was no outbreak in Barcelona well before Wuhan?
Chinese spy contaminated the sample. It has to be Chinese Virus!
What’s the false positive rate of their test, and how many older samples did they test?
So after many months of China bashing from tRump...
Hmmmm 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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I care more about what occurred than what to be assumed. And remember CNY dirty coins now everywhere around us and more dangerous than virus
That article is shit.
Cross contamination.
Who put them there?
China deceived us
There goes the “Chinese Virus” conspiracy! Here’s what happened: After many mutations, the coronavirus in Europe and USA became deadlier. Then, during the Wuhan military games in October 2019, the virus entered China.
Sewage sample? Seems impossible.
There's more than one corona virus
Is this an attempt to take the blame off China’s shoulders or actually a fact? Does anyone deal in facts or transparency in media anymore?
The virus was detected in the stored sewage samples, indicating that the virus has become widespread. The United States died of so many people last year because of the flu. Was it caused by the virus? When will the US be able to test stored sewage samples?
Here we go, white people giving the world disease like small pox, plague, H1N1 and Spanish flu.
Je pense que le coronavirus est certainement apparu dans les années 2017-2018. Un taux de surmortalité en France de la 'Grippe' et les symptômes de cette année là ressemble étrangement au COVID19 quand on lit les articles 2017 On a l'impression de lire un article de 2019!
So it’s Spanish flu no 2? 😂
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So we're in year two.
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I returned from a trip to Thailand through a southern China airport in March 2019 and caught something very similar to COVID-19 in March-April 2019. It was miserable. We are all assuming there was a one-time animal-human jump of COVID-19. Maybe it was more gradual.
does Trump have a derogatory name for Spaniards ?
Article says samples from subsequent months were negative tho, so I'd say it's a false positive. Whereas the positive from January 2020, 41 days before the first known positive case, is plausible.
How the hell?
Has whoever handled the sample been tested? Any chance they just contaminated it somehow?
devisridhar “Spain, March ‘19” 😧— it would be interesting to study when the virus strain was first detected in the U.K.’s sewer systems
There still could be uncertainties about the origin of it.
Double check the info, please!!!!!!!! The source....
How long had we been living with it before we were told to be scared of it?
So now you’re saying I have to go and test my saved sewage samples from last year?
Take a breather
Ok there are different types of coronaviruses tho. Doesn't necessarily mean covid19.
Wait. So the globe was shutdown a year after this virus was already making its way through the population?🤔
Expect more evidence🤔
If true, does that mean this thing has somehow become more deadly and more contagious since then?
I highly doubt this. Had they said November I’d be inclined to believe it.
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It is obvious that if you carefully examine the sewage systems in any country, you can find something even worse than Covid-19. The question is different-the mechanism of development of a viral epidemic in the human environment.
Not CHYNA's fault then!!
How many those 20k flu death was caused by covid last year?
Wait. Who has sewage samples from more than a year ago?!😳
False positive , need tons of more testing and some peer reviews to make this even reportable. Stupid news cycle.
Click bait, here you all go.
Was it COVID 19? No.
Inconclusive study that has yet to be peer reviewed & based from one sample.
March 3, 2019 = 3/3/3. Father, son and Holy Spirit.
So we’ve been living with it for at least 1.5 years. Proof this is all political.
So perhaps it originates in Europe or the USA. The racist comments sidelining China is just a USA ploy to counter its slow death as world power
Fixed it.
I don't know about everyone else but I have an uncomfortable feeling about the CCP and the origins of Covid19.
This could be huge, if it was around for that long then perhaps we discovered it late. All of that makes it more likely that it is not as dangerous as it’s said to be.
Ah Ffs. This thing has been around for years.
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