“China is saying pneumonia like symptoms appeared in Nov and Dec of last year in #Italy”
Now, that WAS the flu!
Nope.
It was the Wuhan flu, too.
Impossible that the migrant workers didn’t bring it. Totally nonsensical.
No it wasn’t and the dying began then too.
“Nov and Dec”
In November it was still too early for any significant spread including to Italy, as the first case, patient zero, in Wuhan was November 17. Cases that early would have been literally single digits by the end of November in Italy due to incubation periods. Barring a super spreader.
At a 2 day doubling rate (not realistic, but for the sake of argument) the number of total cases from Wuhan would have been about 60 by the end of November, most presymptomatic. So if there were Wuhanic Plague cases in November in Italy, there were so few they would not have been noticed.
Don’t confuse me with the FluBros, but November was really early to generate enough cases and squeeze in a couple of incubation periods and get it to Italy enough to be noticed.
December you have a better argument for, I concede that.
But in Wuhan they had at least a 10 day head start.
By and large, though, once this thing was loose, there would have been a lot of Pneumonia cases that were not flu related that would not have been identified as the Wuhanic Plague. There were even reports of a surge of such around the right time. Read it here on FRT, even. Maybe they will test some of them to do some forensics and shut down the Chinese propaganda regarding where it came from.
It came from China. It did not come from Italy, the US or anywhere else.
Pneumonia happens, so the statement made by China that “pneumonia like symptoms appeared in Nov and Dec of last year in #Italy” is certainly true, but they were also certainly not Wuhanic Plague early on, they were regular pneumonia and China is trying to muddy the waters with half-truths.
Sigh. I haven’t looked at today’s numbers yet. I don’t want to. It’s tragically depressing.