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Original caption: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The United States had new antibodies to coronavirus in blood samples late last year, a month before the first official report.
A study by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published in the journal “Clinical Infectious Diseases” on November 30 showed that, based on testing of blood samples from residents of nine states in the United States, as early as mid-December 2019, the new corona virus may have Appeared in the United States. This is one month before the first confirmed case in the United States officially reported by the United States.
106 of the 7,389 donated blood samples had antibodies
In this study, the American Red Cross will provide 7,389 blood samples collected from residents of nine states in the United States from December 13, 2019 through January 17, 2020 to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The results showed that antibodies against the new coronavirus were found in 106 blood samples, of which 39 samples were collected between December 13 and 16 of last year, from California, Oregon and Washington, and another 67 from donated blood . The samples were collected in Massachusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin and elsewhere from December 30 of last year to January 17 of this year.
According to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the above dates were before the date the first confirmed case was reported in the United States in January of this year.
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote in the report that the latest findings indicate that “the case of the new corona infection in the United States may have appeared in December 2019, earlier than the previous discovery.” .
American Netizens: I or my family members were infected with the new crown in December of last year
This research has attracted the attention of many Internet users on social networks. Many Americans left messages saying that as early as December last year, or even earlier, they or their relatives had symptoms similar to new coronary pneumonia, and some people were even using ventilators.
Some American netizens said:
“After understanding the symptoms of the new crown, I think I had it in December of last year. Although I do not remember losing my sense of taste, I have many other symptoms.”
“Four people in our family were very ill after attending a wedding in December last year. They all had symptoms similar to the new crown, and it took a long time for the symptoms to go away.”
“I knew that was the case. Because my aunt and her friend got sick when they went shopping the week before the public holiday in December last year. They were hospitalized and my aunt stayed a week. Her friend used it. After three months on a respirator, I went to the rehab center for oxygen. “
“I’m sure I got the new crown in mid-December 2019. At that time, I had a fever for 13 days, but I was diagnosed with viral pneumonia.”
“I’m sure I won the new crown last November.”
“We didn’t realize that the new crown was there at the time. At first it hadn’t spread, so people didn’t pay attention.”
In addition to American netizens, netizens from other countries also said that they had symptoms similar to those of the new crown in December last year.
Canadian Internet users:
“I am very happy that what I experienced in December of last year and January of this year was finally reported by the scientists. I am pretty sure that I won the new crown at that time.”
Ethiopian netizens:
“The same is true in Ethiopia, early December (last year)! Even without this study, many people have already reported the same symptoms as the new crown.”
News link US media: Several studies have found that last year the new corona virus spread around the world
Previous studies in the United States also indicated that the new corona virus may have spread in Los Angeles before the United States reported the first confirmed case of new corona. Reporting on the latest report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on November 30, the US “Wall Street Journal” also noted that the study further showed that the virus had spread. spread in many parts of the world long before public health departments and researchers became aware of the new coronavirus. For example, France had previously discovered that a patient admitted to the hospital on December 27 last year had been infected with the new coronavirus.
Medical Examiner: In the Paris region, there were cases of infection at the end of December last year.
On May 3 of this year, Cohen, the head of the intensive care unit at the Jean-Verdier Hospital in the northeast suburb of Paris, France, told French media that after retesting the nucleic acid test samples virus out of the first 24 pneumonia patients, one was found. The male patient admitted to the hospital on December 27 last year was infected with the new coronavirus. This shows that there were cases of new coronary pneumonia in the French region of Paris at the end of December last year.
Cohen said the test samples from this male patient have been repeatedly reviewed and confirmed that he was suffering from new coronary pneumonia at the time. This case appeared almost a month before the imported case first confirmed by the French Ministry of Health on January 24.
An Italian investigation shows that antibodies against the new coronavirus were detected in the blood last year
In addition, according to an Italian media report on November 15, a study published recently by the National Cancer Institute in Milan, Italy, showed that the institute detected antibodies to the new coronavirus in blood samples collected from some residents in September. last year, which means, The spread of the new coronavirus in Italy was much earlier than in February. According to the document, the National Cancer Institute of Milan recruited 959 volunteers to participate in a lung cancer trial between September 2019 and March 2020. After the outbreak of the new corona pneumonia, researchers conducted a new test of coronavirus serum in the stored blood samples, and the results showed that 111 of the 959 samples were positive.
The lead author of the article, Monto Mori, professor of public health at the University of Siena: These are our strong scientific conclusions. From these conclusions, we can infer that the new corona virus has spread in Italy and even in Europe before the end of September last year.
