I have had this conversation with former medical colleagues in Upstate South Carolina. December thru February saw a higher than average load of bad flu cases and subsequent deaths. Of course without testing or even the contagion being on the radar, we will never for sure.
It went thu the country USA before the Dr in China figured out it was not the flu...
That is why other parts of China seem to have missed out...it could have been floating around for months??
Doctors just though it was the flu
See my #37.
I’m in Central SC.