China likely had active cases in August or September whether they knew it or not.
In December, the announced that the virus was making people sick and also that they had identified the virus to be “novel”. In order for them to know that, they would have had to type the RNA sequence of the virus. That is not a simple thing to do and it takes time. Therefore, they were studying this before they made the announcement in December.
Imagine how many people passed through China between late August and December 2019? If we back date until then and now we’re seeing things under control in China, that’s 7 months so far in total with about 5-6 months of really bad stuff.
The question is, how much did our precautions upfront help? How much will the difference make in the density of the populations? If we’re 3-4 months, that will take us to the end of June.
However, another important variable is the time of year. Viruses usually die out by May so the weather warming should help.
We’re all deciding how to suffer and sacrifice during Lent.
I honestly believe that this virus has been in our country since Dec. we have had MANY, MANY Americans that said they had their flu shot and still got the flu and it was a booger to shake it!! This hysteria with the American people is absolutely heartbreaking for me I have lived through a lot of things in this country and NEVER saw Americans respond in sch a hysterical way!!{
The Wuhan lab was advertising in Nov 2019 for postdocs to study how coronaviruses hide from the immune system.
This coronavirus has a cleavage center on the spike, which reacts with furin enzymes on human cells. The enzyme cuts open the spike, allowing the virus and human cell membrane to merge, so the virus can get into the cell.
This cleavage site is NOT found in the closely-related bat coronaviruses.
Guess where it *is* found? Ebola and AIDS among others.