Posted on 05/06/2020 12:58:59 PM PDT by blam
The head of Sweden’s coronavirus response, Anders Tegnell, claimed the Wuhan coronavirus might have been in the country as early as November.
Tegnell made his comments at a press conference on Tuesday saying there might have been individual cases of the Chinese virus as far back as November. But he added that the cases would not have had any significant impact on the spread of the infection.
“I think you can find a few cases among Wuhan travellers who were here in November, December last year. It doesn’t sound at all strange but very possible,” the state epidemiologist said, according to SVT.
“The French case suggests it, and there are similar anecdotes in other countries,” Tegnell added, referring to recent comments from French doctor Yves Cohen who said this week that a patient treated on the 27th of December had coronavirus.
Italian Region Now Thinks it Already Had 1,200 Coronavirus Cases Before ‘Patient One’ Was Even Detected https://t.co/eS2DVWU6hh
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 1, 2020
A swab of the French patient, 43-year-old Amirouche Hammar from Bobigny, was taken in December but was not tested until recently and was found positive for the coronavirus infection.
Hammar claimed he had not left France before his illness, but it was noted that his wife worked near the Charles De Gaulle airport and may have come into contact with Chinese travellers.
According to Tegnell, the early cases in Sweden were not responsible for the outbreak that has led to the deaths of around 2,800 people so far in the country, with the Swedish Public Health Authority believing the large-scale infections did not start until either February or March.
France and Sweden are not the only countries to report cases well before the main outbreak
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Un-possible.
The New York politician said that COVID came from Europe.
And it got to NYC from Iran.
Proof any idiot can be a Gov Employee or Politician.
I don’t understand your post.
You can redraw the timeline. Whole thing had to go back into August timeframe.
I believe you are correct.
That’s pretty much true everywhere. A combination of not being able to test, relatively few cases (which could also be attributed to other causes), silence followed by denial and then ‘happy words’ from China, and idiocy by most Western countries in Believing China/WHO, gave the virus many weeks to get a strong foothold in the West.
...and now we are paying the price.
Can I possibly be the only person in Christiandom who believed that there was no reason that the virus we’d begun hearing about in Wuhan was not ALREADY out among us? That’s Clue One that it isn’t the killer the “experts” wanted it to be.
BTW, beginning last Nov.-Dec there were a lot of people here in California really sick with flu like symptoms but claiming it didn't feel like a normal flu.
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