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What's this about a corona case in the Falklands in February? I cannot find any mention of that elsewhere? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-falkland-isla

• Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
  I'm glad that I'm not the only one scratching their heads slightly. According to the article " claims to have found the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in a Barcelona sewage sample from 12 March 2019[1]. Further reading of [1] says that zilch (zero, nill, nothing) was found in samples taken on the 11 March 2019 (the day before) and that equally zilch was found on 13 March 2019 (the day afterwards)[2] and yet the article casually makes the assertion " have found the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in a Barcelona sewage sample from 12 March 2019". Uhmm yeah, no. [1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v1.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v... [2] "archival WWTP samples from January 2018 to December 2019 (Figure 2). All samples came out to be negative for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes with the exception of March 12, 2019". I'm not an expert (or anything even close to being one in this domain) but let's not post anything that has yet to be properly peer reviewed. Not a dig at the submitter, but an eye-roll at the article.