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> signaling that it might have spread beyond China earlier than thought. That's the logical conclusion is it? Journal Article - https://journals.sagepub.com/d

> signaling that it might have spread beyond China earlier than thought. That's the logical conclusion is it? Journal Article - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620974755 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620974755 It didn't come from the Wuhan markets. That was always simplistic rubbish. You would logically guess it was in rural China for months before. This is where it might bite us, if we looked wider than the mystical wet markets of the orient we might have understood how it spreads much sooner. But one study has the flaw it only has one group of researchers. I wouldn't believe it yet.

najarvg 6y ago
Yes, you are right to be skeptical. It is an extraordinary claim that goes against all of what we know from covid-19 genome sequence studies so far. The burden of proof is very high for follow up evidence, otherwise it is just a hypothesis. Here is some commentary about this from the director at UCL Genetics Institute - https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1328058398517190656 https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/13280583985171906... if anyone is interested in following along