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Interesting article from a timing perspective and DS players potentially being previously exposed prior to the State of the Union to try and infect POTUS via handshake.
From the Daily Mail: Coronavirus has been in California since DECEMBER, studies suggest
The coronavirus may have started to spread in California as early as December - months before the state went on lockdown and enacted social distancing measures after reporting its first confirmed case, according to officials.
Dr. Jeff Smith, the chief executive of Santa Clara County, believes that the severity of flu season made health care professionals think that patients were suffering from influenza given the similarity of some of the symptoms.
In reality, however, a handful of sick Californians that were going to the doctor earlier this year may have been among the first to be carrying the coronavirus.
âThe virus was freewheeling in our community and probably has been here for quite some time,â Smith, a physician, told county leaders in a recent briefing.
The failure of authorities to detect the virus earlier has allowed it to spread unchecked in California and across the nation.
âThis wasnât recognized because we were having a severe flu season,â Smith told the Los Angeles Times.
âSymptoms are very much like the flu. If you got a mild case of COVID, you didnât really notice.
âYou didnât even go to the doctor.
âThe doctor maybe didnât even do it because they presumed it was the flu.â
In late February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an investigation after a California patient came down with coronavirus even though this person did not travel to any known hotspots nor made contact with someone who did.
It was at the time believed to be the first known US case of someone falling ill with COVID-19 due to âcommunity spreadâ - suggesting that the virus had been in the country longer than originally feared.
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