[officialjunk]

We know where it was first identified as a new virus, not where it started.

There are numerous reports of Italy’s search for patient zero pointing to it being there before China.

“ Remuzzi says he is now hearing information about it from general practitioners. "They remember having seen very strange pneumonia, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even November," he says. "This means that the virus was circulating, at least in [the northern region of] Lombardy and before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China."”

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/817974987/every-single-indivi...