Tidig Covid I Italien
2020-11-17
The history of the pandemic could be reshaped after more findings suggest coronavirus has been circulating in Italy since last summer.
Tests on nearly 1,000 people’s blood samples from September 2019 onwards showed Covid-19 antibodies were present in 11 percent of participants.
The samples were from people who had taken part in a lung cancer screening trial running from September 2019 to the following March, and all were asymptomatic at the time of their blood test.
The study was conducted by scientists at Milan’s National Institute of Cancer and the University of Siena, and published by the Tumori Journal. The data has been praised as particularly valuable for its basis on blood samples, compared to another study by Italian scientists, which showed traces of coronavirus in sewage water from December 2019.
These new findings bring the entire timeline of the pandemic into question, as the outbreak was originally believed to have started in Wuhan in December 2019. It also supports research from other European countries that found traces of Covid-19 were present before the outbreak was confirmed this year.
The study’s conclusions also seem to be consistent with reports of severe respiratory symptoms and “atypical flu” rampant among Italy’s elderly late in 2019.
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The history of the pandemic could be reshaped after more findings suggest coronavirus has been circulating in Italy since last summer.
Tests on nearly 1,000 people’s blood samples from September 2019 onwards showed Covid-19 antibodies were present in 11 percent of participants.
The samples were from people who had taken part in a lung cancer screening trial running from September 2019 to the following March, and all were asymptomatic at the time of their blood test.
The study was conducted by scientists at Milan’s National Institute of Cancer and the University of Siena, and published by the Tumori Journal. The data has been praised as particularly valuable for its basis on blood samples, compared to another study by Italian scientists, which showed traces of coronavirus in sewage water from December 2019.
These new findings bring the entire timeline of the pandemic into question, as the outbreak was originally believed to have started in Wuhan in December 2019. It also supports research from other European countries that found traces of Covid-19 were present before the outbreak was confirmed this year.
The study’s conclusions also seem to be consistent with reports of severe respiratory symptoms and “atypical flu” rampant among Italy’s elderly late in 2019.
MORE: https://on.rt.com/av1o
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