September 2020 review noted the hypothetical possibility that the COVID-19 infection had already spread to Europe in 2019 by presumptive evidences including pneumonia case numbers and radiology in France and Italy in November and December. However, a subsequent retrospective surveillance report determined there was no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 circulation in Rome (Italy) during this period
That was the Fort Detrick source theory... That it first went in US undetected as the vape illness, glass lung and a lot of deaths in nursing homes, in June, July, August 2019, but most of the news were scrapped.
The theory started from this report from August 2019 by the New York Times:
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Date: 2024-07-09 09:11 pm (UTC)That was the Fort Detrick source theory... That it first went in US undetected as the vape illness, glass lung and a lot of deaths in nursing homes, in June, July, August 2019, but most of the news were scrapped.
The theory started from this report from August 2019 by the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.html