[Grimmy]

Yes, it was too early for North America based on gene sequencing. The very first case in China could have been in that time frame, but only barely.

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With the huge amount of travel between China and the US, especially Wuhan, since that place is both a major air/transport/shipping hub *and* a major industrial center with a solid crap ton of product formerly owned by America, there’s very nearly zero chance the virus didn’t show up here within days of it hitting there.

[lepton]

With the huge amount of travel between China and the US, especially Wuhan, since that place is both a major air/transport/shipping hub *and* a major industrial center with a solid crap ton of product formerly owned by America, there’s very nearly zero chance the virus didn’t show up here within days of it hitting there.

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If as many as a thousand people had it in Wuhan, even then, the chance of anyone with it was on a plane to the US was pretty small - and that’s a bit more than a few days to get to the thousand even there.