That would be in line with France's findings of COVID-19 cases from November [1], and Italy finding traces in waste water [2,3]. IIRC, public toilets due to fe

That would be in line with France's findings of COVID-19 cases from November [1], and Italy finding traces in waste water [2,3]. IIRC, public toilets due to fecal matter were a possible infection vector (I hope I am using the term correctly) [4], which suggests that there had been covid cases since December in Italy as the traces were in waste water [2,3]. Some hypothesise that covid had been circulating in humans long before the market outbreak [5], this hypothesis does seem to corroborate the hypothesis that the virus had long spread before the first 'official' outbreak in Wuhan. [1] https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20210311-surprises-about-french-health-emerge-from-long-term-cohort-study-covid-19-november-2019-constances https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20210311-surprises-about-french... [2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-water-survey-traces-december-a9575171.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-... [3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53106444 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53106444 [4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiegold/2020/06/18/new-scientific-study-shows-toilet-related-coronavirus-transmission-risk/?sh=6d2ea2f317a4 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiegold/2020/06/18/new-scient... [5] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar-27-covid-pandemic-origins-nature-sounds-good-why-humans-have-such-big-brains-and-more-1.5965083/covid-fuse-may-have-been-lit-weeks-or-months-before-the-bomb-in-wuhan-market-researcher-1.5965090 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar-27-covid-pandemic-origin...