Cuomo: The Coronavirus That Came To New York "Did Not Come From China, It Came From Europe"

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) argued the coronavirus that hit New York state did not come from China but Europe, probably Italy he said. At his Friday coronavirus press briefing, Cuomo said President Trump's China travel ban was too late and the horse had long left the barn. "Researchers now find and they report in some newspapers, the virus was spreading wildly in Italy in February and there was an outbreak, massive outbreak in Italy in February," Cuomo said. "Researchers now say there were likely 28,000 cases in the United States in February, including 10,000 cases in the state of New York and the Coronavirus flu virus that came to New York, did not come from China. It came from Europe." "When you look at the number of flights that came from Europe to New York, the New York metropolitan area, New York and New Jersey during January, February, up to the close down, 13,000 flights bringing 2.2 million people," he said. "All right. So November, December you have the outbreak in China. Everybody knows." "We acted two months after the China outbreak," the governor said. "When you look back, does anyone think the virus was still in China waiting for us to act two months later? We all talk about the global economy and how fast people move and how mobile we are. Can you expect that when you act two months after the outbreak in China, the virus was only in China waiting for us to act? The horse had already left the barn by the time we moved." GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: Last November, December, we knew that China had a virus outbreak. You could read about it in the newspapers, right? Everybody knew. January 26, we know we had the first confirmed case in Seattle, Washington, and California.

"All right. So November, December you have the outbreak in China. Everybody knows." "We acted two months after the China outbreak," the governor said. "When you look back, does anyone think the virus was still in China waiting for us to act two months later? We all talk about the global economy and how fast people move and how mobile we are. Can you expect that when you act two months after the outbreak in China, the virus was only in China waiting for us to act? The horse had already left the barn by the time we moved."

So why Andrew, did you wait until March 20th to shutdown NYS??

excerpt: probably Italy he said.
and where did the virus in Italy come from? China. never mind Cuomo has made all the FakeNewsMSM with this latest get-Trump rubbish. if there really were a serious pandemic, all these political games would not be happening...at least not to the degree thay have been so far, it being a presidential election year.

who did the research?

24 Apr: Daily Mail: Coronavirus spread silently through cities including New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Seattle in February when the world was focused only on China, new study claims
•Research by Northwestern University estimates that 28,000 people across five major cities were infected when only 23 cases had been confirmed
•They based their research on population density, travel habits in each of the cities and when they were placed in lockdown
•The researchers say New York City likely had more than 10,000 cases when only one had been detected
•If correct, it means the fatality rate is far lower than the current estimate of around five percent
By Jennifer Smith
Their estimates were shared by The New York Times on Thursday and paint a worrying picture of how far behind the US was in responding to the threat...

They base their research on the number of people traveling to the US, especially New York, from China and Europe in the weeks before travel was suspended by President Trump...

***It is unclear how exactly they reached their estimates or how accurate it is.

‘In the background, you have this silence chain of transmission of thousands of people,’ ***Alessandro Vespignani, who led the team, said...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8249753/Coronavirus-spread-silently-major-cities-February-world-watching-China.html

31 Aug 2014: Science Mag: Disease modelers project a rapidly rising toll from Ebola
By Kai Kupferschmidt
***Alessandro Vespignani hopes that his latest work will turn out to be wrong. In July, the physicist from Northeastern University in Boston started modeling how the deadly Ebola virus may spread in West Africa. Extrapolating existing trends, the number of the sick and dying mounts rapidly from the current toll—more than 3000 cases and 1500 deaths—to about 10,000 cases by 24 September, and hundreds of thousands in the months after that. “The numbers are really scary,” he says—although he stresses that the model assumes control efforts aren’t stepped up. “We all hope to see this NOT happening,” Vespigani writes in an e-mail...
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/08/disease-modelers-project-rapidly-rising-toll-ebola

CDC: 2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
Two and a half years after the first case was discovered, the outbreak ended with more than 28,600 cases and 11,325 deaths...

this links to the so-called model:

26 Apr: Northeastern University: The coronavirus was in the US in January. We need to understand how we missed it.
by Laura Castañón
But SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, was already circulating in major U.S. cities, according to Alessandro Vespignani, Sternberg Family distinguished university professor, who directs Northeastern’s Network Science Institute...

The discovery that the virus was already circulating in the U.S in January comes from a model that Vespignani and his colleagues have been using to study and predict the global spread of the virus. The model relies on human mobility and patterns of interaction, as well as the infection dynamics of the virus.
“The model allows us to go into what we call the invisible stage of the epidemic in the United States,” Vespignani says. “We can simulate the arrival of infected people that were starting local transmission chains.”
“The model allows us to go into what we call the invisible stage of the epidemic in the United States,” Vespignani says. “We can simulate the arrival of infected people that were starting local transmission chains.”

Research that the group released last month (LINK) shows that the cordoning off of cities within China, as well as travel restrictions implemented by countries around the globe, came too late. The coronavirus was already out.
It was January—the height of flu season, winter colds, and other respiratory illnesses. Even the few people with severe cases would not have drawn much attention without a history of recent travel to China...

***Cities that are hubs for international travel from China—New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles—saw the earliest cases in the U.S...

By the time the U.S. was turning away or quarantining travelers from China, the coronavirus was already spreading through U.S. cities, and new cases were coming from Europe and other areas.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/04/26/covid-19-was-in-the-us-in-january-we-need-to-understand-how-we-missed-it/

good luck finding Cuomo’s gotcha Trump rubbish in the above.

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