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

[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.”

[Jane Long]

Xi....I wonder!

[Jane Long]

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

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Now, we know.

[a fool in paradise]

Did it see any patients or was it like our own emergency built-ins in both hospitals that saw zero patients?

[Grimmy]

What did Xi know and when did Xi know it?

*******

Commiescum China is one place where it may be safe to assume that those at the top had no clue.

Shooting the messenger is a thing there. Bad news does not get sent up the chain o’ command.

[little jeremiah]

Of course. And the Demsheviks knew (and maybe helped a bit?), wanted a plandemic/scamdemic, to make OrangeManBad look bad and force all mail in voting on everyon

[Big Red Badger]

I’m writing a Strongly
Worded letter to
The Editor!

[krogers58]

As we already know, most of the management of our intel agencies are Democrats. Obama seeded critical agencies and departments with ideological extremists. Do we really expect that they will operate in the best interests of the citizenry?

[iceskater]

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.


I was thinking about the same thing yesterday. The Chicoms may not have intentionally infected the world (and I am not totally convinced it was an accident), but they sure took advantage of the opportunity.

[mewzilla]

I bet our intel did know.

I’ll bet some American biz did, too, especially biz that people in Wuhan.

Ditto for American universities.

What did they all know and when did they know it.

If they did know, we can guess why they said nothing.

[gleeaikin]

I read earlier that our intelligence people were aware that something like Covid was happening in November 2019. Why did it take so long to act on this information?