Posted on 05/04/2020 5:39:43 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A French hospital has determined it treated a patient with COVID-19 in December, nearly a month before the nation confirmed its first infection, a doctor told a French news outlet.
While retesting old samples, the hospital discovered a pneumonia patient who was positive for the coronavirus as early as Dec. 27, Yves Cohen, head of resuscitation at the Avicenne and Jean Verdier hospitals in Paris, told BFM TV, according to The Guardian.
Cohen said it was too early to say whether the man treated in December was “patient zero” for France. The man survived after being sick for 15 days, and officials have launched a tracing investigation.
He had infected his two children but not his wife, who works at a sushi stand at a supermarket along side colleagues of Chinese origin. The patient had not traveled abroad, but it is unclear if his wife's coworkers traveled to China, according to The Guardian.
“We’re wondering whether she was asymptomatic,” Cohen said. “He may be the ‘patient zero’, but perhaps there are others in other regions. All the negative PCRs for pneumonia must be tested again. The virus was probably circulating," he added, referring to a genetic screening test.
France first identified three cases of coronavirus on Jan. 24, with two in Paris and one in the city of Bordeaux.
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It went through my midwest college town with thousands of Chinese students in January. Everybody I know had the worst flu of our lives, and it took two months to clear the phlegm out of our lungs.
If it was in France Dec. 27, the Chinese really are lying their heads off.
Chinese? Working at a Sushi Bar?
Hmmmm....sure
There’s something fishy about this bat virus?!
If it was in Europe around Christmastime it was here, also.
You might want to notify our medical experts who think it didn’t happen in the US until February 2020.
I was starting with a cold around Christmastime, and was VERY sick by New Years Eve. My doctor told me it was flu/bronchitis. Lord knows what it might have been if I waited longer.
“You might want to notify our medical experts who think it didn’t happen in the US until February 2020”
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I think it was here starting sometime in the last few months of 2019. We just didn’t know what it was, so it wasn’t diagnosed (correctly).
“The P4 laboratory (Wuhan) was indeed planned and constructed with the help of France, in the context of the cooperation agreement of 2004. “
I truly believe i had it over christmas.
If the medical experts are sticking with January 2020 as the beginning of this coronavirus, why isn't it called COVID-20 instead of COVOD-19?
Is there an award for being “patient zero?” Seems to be a lot of people claiming the title.
Yeah, I’ve read a lot of reports by people who were hit with some kind of a unique heavy whammy late 2019/Jan 2020. Can’t say for sure, but a good number of people realized it was no ordinary flu/cold that laid them low for awhile!
Prob many more got it but had no or minor symptoms that didn’t need med attention. Though they likely passed it on.
More like early January...
“I’ll remember to flag it as such next time.”
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Nah, no need, I caught it right off and was just adding on a thought.
Soccer Blue!
proving again that lockdown is ridiculous. This thing was here long before fhey shut everything down
I came down with it, I am sure, on Dec. 11 and still was recovering on Jan. 22.
I had a very bad cold for about two weeks starting at Christmas. I thought it was just a cold because I had a wet cough with no fever as opposed to dry cough with a fever for the Kung Flu. But now I don’t know.
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