Naked Science Forum

Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => COVID-19 => Topic started by: nudephil on 04/05/2020 17:52:24

Title: Is it possible COVID-19 was around earlier than January?
Post by: nudephil on 04/05/2020 17:52:24

Mark sent us this:

Many people I know had the symptoms in December, and PHE flu statistics show a unknown substrain from week 40 last year up to week 4. Is it possible that COVID-19 has been around earlier than January

How would you prove/disprove this?

Title: Re: Is it possible COVID-19 was around earlier than January?
Post by: Bobolink on 04/05/2020 19:03:05

The first case of covid 19 was in November.  The virus is called covid 19, because it was discovered in 2019.

Title: Re: Is it possible COVID-19 was around earlier than January?
Post by: set fair on 05/05/2020 18:18:11

Almost certain it was in the UK in december. For evidence there is the genome mutation data.