re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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A Cambridge team of geneticists led by Peter Forster reported that they were able to sequence mutations in order to trace the virus' origin in humans. Those scientists reported that the earliest known human infection occurred in China well South of Wuhan.

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Do you have a link to that? I can see how they can link trace it back to a person who comes from an group that is predominant in a specific region of the world, but I don’t see how you can determine that the person contracted the virus in that specific region.

For example, (SPOILER ALERT) in the movie Contagion, Gwyneth Paltrow‘s character was Patient Zero and she was from Minneapolis (interesting given current events). But the zoonotic transmission (bat and pig to human) occurred in Macau. So if they were able to genetically trace it back to her, that wouldn’t tell us where it started.

So given the outbreak in Wuhan, it seems like regardless of how, when, and why it happened, that the this was the original mass outbreak location.