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The CDC’s Dr. Thornburg and Josh Denny, chief executive of the NIH’s All of Us program and an author of the latest study, both said they don’t plan to search bl
by bigpumpkin 5y ago
The CDC’s Dr. Thornburg and Josh Denny, chief executive of the NIH’s All of Us program and an author of the latest study, both said they don’t plan to search blood samples earlier than December 2019, given how few they have found back then. “We’ve seen a very low rate of positivity in this time period,” [1]
[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-virus-ranged-from-illinois-to-massachusetts-before-states-reported-first-cases-11623762001?mod=hp_lead_pos10 https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-virus-ranged-from-illi...
Why not sample earlier blood and see how far back COVID originated.
- xienze 5y ago> Why not sample earlier blood and see how far back COVID originated. Because if people found out that Covid had been spreading in the US for months before the “official” starting date of March 2020, they’d come to realize that they would have never even realized there was a pandemic going on were it not for the media attention.
- shkkmo 5y agoThe lack of ICU beds might have been a clue...