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by taxicabjesus 1886 days ago
I was just found a tab on my phone with this CNN article:

CNN Exclusive: WHO Wuhan mission finds possible signs of wider original outbreak in 2019 - https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/14/health/who-mission-china-intl...

The investigators found evidence of 13 virus strains in Wuhan in December 2019:

> As a result, they were able to gather for the first time 13 different genetic sequences of the SARS-COV-2 virus from December 2019. The sequences, if examined with wider patient data in China across 2019, could provide valuable clues about the geography and timing of the outbreak before December.

> ...

> Prof. Edward Holmes, a virologist at the University of Sydney, in Australia, said: "As there was already genetic diversity in SARS-CoV-2 sequences sampled from Wuhan in December 2019, it is likely that the virus was circulating for a while longer than that month alone."

The point I'm trying to make here is that there's certainly a lot of facets of the pandemic that haven't been properly explained.