Lots of discussion on source of the virus… https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12332538
“the study says genetic examination of four samples containing the virus from the seafood market to those taken from the Wuhan patient are "99.9 per cent" identical. This suggests it came from infected visitors or vendors, indicating "Sars-CoV-2 had been imported into the market by humans". The authors confirmed to the Mail on Sunday they had found no evidence "of cross-species transmission" at the market.
They cite a paper by Chinese scientists, published this month in Zoological Research journal that, after examining samples from infected patients, has also inferred the virus was brought into the market.
These new studies dovetail with another work by Chinese scientists published in the Lancet, which found only 27 of the first 41 confirmed cases were "exposed" to the market – and only one of four initial cases in the first two weeks of December.”
This article is interesting as they note confirmation on test in France in November – https://bgr.com/2020/05/16/coronavirus-patient-zero-france-finds-evidence-pointing-to-november/
“…latest proof comes from France, a country that already obtained evidence that said a COVID-19 patient was admitted to a hospital in Paris in late December at a time when no one knew about the disease. That patient had not traveled to China or anywhere else. The doctors who tested his samples months after his hospital visit were unable to explain where he got the virus from. And now, new evidence says the virus may have been circulating in France as early as mid-November, more than a month before the first confirmed case in Paris.
Just like the doctors from Paris who started looking at past cases to discover patients who exhibited COVID-19-like symptoms, a team of researchers in the northeastern French city of Colmar started looking at X-ray results that would be consistent with CT imagery of confirmed COVID-19 patients. The team identified two X-rays from November 16th and 18th that showed symptoms consistent with atypical pneumonia that often presents with COVID-19 cases.”
Now why would China still want to push the message it came from the wet market when they can jump on any of these stories?
Perhaps we will be below 1000 deaths if we could just extend the weekend more… even Brazil dropped…but I am afraid this is just a weekend data feed.
NY still leading the way 171 deaths. Confirmation starting to be evenly spread out beyond East Coast with TX and CA making a larger pieces of the pie.
Highest confirmation uptick is actually in Orange County CA and Cook County IL. Interesting to see confirmed cases in the Panhandle of Texas growing.
US still leading the bulk of confirmation and deaths when comparing to other countries
Brazil and Mexico on 7 day MA still growing.
