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Fact-checking claims coronavirus might have started in August 2019
- mellosouls 6y agoPrevious discussion on the contested study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23459963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23459963 The study itself: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42669767 https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42669767
- aaron695 6y agoThe virus will have come from rural China, where bats live and you have humans, livestock and wild animals mixing. And probably kicked around for a few months at least before getting to the city. So it quite possibly started in August or even before. However the study looked at is typical academia, citation bait.