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Anonymous ID: 3df380 Nov. 15, 2020, 3:12 p.m. No.11660275   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Coronavirus emerged in Italy earlier than thought, Italian study shows

ROME (Reuters) - The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy since September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that COVID-19 might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought.

 

The World Health Organization has said the new coronavirus and COVID-19, the respiratory disease it causes, were unknown before the outbreak was first reported in Wuhan, in central China, in December.

 

Italy’s first COVID-19 patient was detected on Feb. 21 in a little town near Milan, in the northern region of Lombardy.

 

But the Italian researchers’ findings, published by the INT’s scientific magazine Tumori Journal, show that 11,6% of 959 healthy volunteers enrolled in a lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020, had developed coronavirus antibodies well before February.

 

“This is the main finding: people with no symptoms not only were positive after the serological tests but had also antibodies able to kill the virus,” Apolone said.

 

“It means that the new coronavirus can circulate among the population for long and with a low rate of lethality not because it is disappearing but only to surge again,” he added.

 

Italian researchers told Reuters in March that they reported a higher than usual number of cases of severe pneumonia and flu in Lombardy in the last quarter of 2019 in a sign that the new coronavirus might have circulated earlier than previously thought.

 

A further specific SARS-CoV-2 antibodies test was carried out by the University of Siena for the same research titled “Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the pre-pandemic period in Italy”.

 

It showed that four cases dated back to the first week of October were also positive for antibodies neutralizing the virus, meaning they had got infected in September, Giovanni Apolone, a co-author of the study, told Reuters.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-timing-idINKBN27V0KH

 

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Anonymous ID: 3df380 Nov. 15, 2020, 3:23 p.m. No.11660397   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0425 >>0427 >>0432 >>0433 >>0556

If the GOP doesn't quit its Trump addiction it'll suck the life out of American democracy

It has been just over a week since news networks across the political spectrum called the presidential election for former Vice President Joe Biden. Since then President Donald Trump and his campaign — despite never admitting it — have been handed defeat after defeat.

 

On Friday, a judge threw out the Trump campaign's third attempt to delay the certification of the election results in Michigan — where the president lost by more than 140,000 votes. Around the same time the campaign pulled out of a lawsuit in Arizona, which has also been called for Biden. In Pennsylvania, a law firm representing the president's campaign withdrew from a lawsuit challenging his loss in that state, where Biden beat Trump by over 50,000 votes.

Article continues with final statement of …. Now that he has been voted out of the White House it is the GOP that will decide if Trump will continue dividing the country into white and non-white, Republican and Democrat, urban versus rural. In the meantime 80 million Americans will wait for the Republican Party to admit it has a problem. That's the first step to recovery.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-quit-trump-addiction-suck-life-out-destroy-american-democracy-2020-11