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In reply to the discussion: What is your covid status? [View all]Celerity
(46,154 posts)29. Show me documented human infections from then and I will gladly retract that part.
Not theories, but actual fully documented cases. Of the first 2 known human to human transmission cases in the US that are fully documented (they occurred on January 30 and 31st, 2020) the one on the 31st was not confirmed until April, via post mortem. There are some supposed cases back to around Christmas, but the tests done on those could likely be showing antibodies that came from other coronaviral infections (the common cold is often a coronavirus for instance).
https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/the-first-sars-cov-2-infections-in-humans-occurred-during-fall-2019-but-not-enough-evidence-exists-to-confirm-a-global-spread-before-early-2020/
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Were you in Wuhan before that? All of the eight US cases in January 2020 were directly related to
Celerity
Aug 2021
#5
At that stage there were so few tests, you could only get one if you had travel links to China.
meadowlander
Aug 2021
#10
The odds of having COVID in the US in January 2020 are staggering low, especially if not
Celerity
Aug 2021
#13
We don't know what the odds are because the data is rubbish because there were no tests.
meadowlander
Aug 2021
#14
I'm sticking to the science, & documented epidemiological data, not contrarian anecdotal conjecture.
Celerity
Aug 2021
#15
Doesn't the science show covid was here in the fall of 2019? Waste water samples show that, no?
boston bean
Aug 2021
#27
Show me documented human infections from then and I will gladly retract that part.
Celerity
Aug 2021
#29
I believe you were really sick, I did not mean to imply that at all, sorry if it came off like that
Celerity
Aug 2021
#25
I believe you were really sick, I did not mean to imply that at all, sorry if it came off like that
Celerity
Aug 2021
#26
If there was an antibody test, I'd have been interested to have one before I got vaccinated.
meadowlander
Aug 2021
#12
Might have had it very early, shortly before the alarms went off publicly in the US.
smirkymonkey
Aug 2021
#22