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Satellite data suggests coronavirus may have hit China earlier: Researchers Researchers say surge in cars at hospitals may indicate outbreak in fall.
ABC News ^ | June 8, 2020 | Kaitlyn Folmer and Josh Margolin

Posted on 06/08/2020 5:15:04 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

Dramatic spikes in auto traffic around major hospitals in Wuhan last fall suggest the novel coronavirus may have been present and spreading through central China long before the outbreak was first reported to the world, according to a new Harvard Medical School study.

Using techniques similar to those employed by intelligence agencies, the research team behind the study analyzed commercial satellite imagery and "observed a dramatic increase in hospital traffic outside five major Wuhan hospitals beginning late summer and early fall 2019," according to Dr. John Brownstein, the Harvard Medical professor who led the research.

Brownstein, an ABC News contributor, said the traffic increase also "coincided with" elevated queries on a Chinese internet search for "certain symptoms that would later be determined as closely associated with the novel coronavirus."

Though Brownstein acknowledged the evidence is circumstantial, he said the study makes for an important new data point in the mystery of COVID-19's origins.

“Something was happening in October,” said Brownstein, the chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the medical center’s Computational Epidemiology Lab. “Clearly, there was some level of social disruption taking place well before what was previously identified as the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic.”

“This is all about a growing body of information pointing to something taking place in Wuhan at the time,” Brownstein said. “Many studies are still needed to fully uncover what took place and for people to really learn about how these disease outbreaks unfold and emerge in populations. So this is just another point of evidence.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; covid19; intelligence
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Why isn’t U.S. intel on top of these emerging data patterns in real time? How hard can it be to put AI on key data sources to examine daily trends in hospital traffic and Baidu searches? I find it very hard to believe they don’t do this sort of analysis all the time.

Or maybe U.S. intel DID know about it and they intentionally kept a lid on it knowing it would spread worldwide with the upcoming Chinese holiday season and could be used to take down President Trump.

That and the fact that U.S. intel agencies were preoccupied last fall with executing the coup d’etat against President Trump.

1 posted on 06/08/2020 5:15:04 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Prior reports say that the Wuhan lab had an event which caused it to close for a week in October.


2 posted on 06/08/2020 5:19:42 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: the_Watchman

I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder. I wonder if this sudden spike is related to that event.


3 posted on 06/08/2020 5:21:01 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Covid out for a year with only 110k deaths? I guess the annual death rate is akin to the flu


4 posted on 06/08/2020 5:24:02 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Something was happening in October,” said Brownstein, the chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the medical center’s Computational Epidemiology Lab. “Clearly, there was some level of social disruption taking place well before what was previously identified as the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic.”

The 64 Trillion $ question is: When did the ChiComs infected with their newly created virus weapon start flying to America and around the world to Italy/Spain and the rest of Europe?

What part of October did this migration of the virus start in America?

Then, what states/cities were hit first like maybe California, Washington, New Orleans and of course NYC?


5 posted on 06/08/2020 5:36:50 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Who Decides: Who and What Is Essential and Which Lives Matter? - June 8, 2020 by| Allen West)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’ve been saying it was China in August and in the US late October/ early November. Too many stories.


6 posted on 06/08/2020 5:49:04 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Communists in China lie just like our ‘RAT communist politicians lie. Who would have thought?


7 posted on 06/08/2020 5:59:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
This is what caught my attention.

I remember saying to myself, what's up with that?

8 posted on 06/08/2020 6:03:20 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Drip by drip, the information is flowing out confirming what so many suspected.

The CCP is both evil, and incompetent, but word must have gotten up through the chain of command in October that they had a problem in Wuhan.

Then they sent it around the world, while keeping it out of the rest of China.


9 posted on 06/08/2020 6:09:39 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I heard a well known physician say today that China might have had the virus in the summer 2019. Wow


10 posted on 06/08/2020 6:10:56 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: McGruff

That was not a hospital built in ten days but a crematoria complex ...


11 posted on 06/08/2020 6:11:31 PM PDT by dodger
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Why isn’t U.S. intel on top of these emerging data patterns in real time?

It's a WIDE, WIDE, WIIIIIDE world, and hard to devine much meaning from a traffic jam in a place which theretofore gave no signs of trouble. Seriously ?

12 posted on 06/08/2020 6:12:30 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: absalom01

If only we listened to Mel Gibson back in 1987...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORxcC_55X6s


13 posted on 06/08/2020 6:12:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: McGruff

Damn,
Who’s gonna pay
For 3 Months of
Pure Terror and
Misery pumped out
like a busted sewer
Pipe into Every
Household in America?!?
.
Thank China.
Thank DemoCommies and
The Media.


14 posted on 06/08/2020 6:19:12 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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To: McGruff

I watched that video and, if you know anything about construction, it is rather funny. All those excavators are swinging around, booming in and out, a lot of frenetic activity, but NOTHING was getting done. Those things are mainly used for digging deep basements and trenching for underground pipe installations, but none of that was going on in the video. It seemed like it was all a for-show act...kind of like Democrats when they pander.


15 posted on 06/08/2020 6:21:35 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Big Red Badger
Don't let the DemoncRATic Party give CHINA government a pass for the terrorism they forced on all the nations. CHINA GOVERNMENT MUST PAY! MUST PAY !

CHINALIED

16 posted on 06/08/2020 6:24:13 PM PDT by timestax
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To: chiller

Come on, man. A sudden DOUBLING of traffic to all hospitals in Wuhan? A 10X growth in web searches for “cough” and “diarrhea” in Wuhan? Nothing suspicious about that?

I think you grossly underestimate our ability to suck up real-time intel from around the world (IMINT, HUMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT) and analyze it. This is no longer the world of clandestine agents passing microfilm in the heel of their shoes.


17 posted on 06/08/2020 6:25:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; neverdem; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
What did Xi know and when did Xi know it?
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

18 posted on 06/08/2020 6:28:38 PM PDT by null and void (If this is a representitive democracy, why don't I feel represented?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This totally fits with everything.

Exactly.

Thanks.


19 posted on 06/08/2020 6:30:07 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Grampa Dave

The Wuhan virus is only one airplane flight from any location in the world.

I’m not convinced that they intentionally seeded the world with it, but they clearly did not do anything to prevent it.


20 posted on 06/08/2020 6:33:13 PM PDT by Clay Moore (Mega prayers, Rush)
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