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green_flash t1_j2180jm wrote

The original variant had spread across the world long before Chinese New Year and even before regular New Year. We just couldn't tell at that point, but later tests showed that it was already in multiple countries including Spain, Italy and the US before anyone even knew there was a new virus.

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Able_Golf_7301 t1_j21ekff wrote

True. Wuhan was just where it was first "offical", and there are all of these stories of people who think they had COVID in 2019, before it had a name.

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