I'll only point to this item that N-TV (commercial news in Germany) brought up this morning.
There's this lab test that Barcelona authorities did with waste-water back in March of 2019. The test results? It's showing the Coronavirus.
Was Corona around in March 2019? This is inviting discussion. Some folks are skeptical of the test results.
What the scenario would be? It's a waste-water situation so you would go and assume visitors (tourists) showed up....had some bowel movements, and it went into the sewer system of Barcelona. Oddly enough, this infection should have triggered some guests to visit clinics or hospitals. Since no one noticed an increase in patients or symptom signs, the whole discussion go back to the skeptical side.
What'll happen next? My guess is that someone will open up hospital records looking for purely situations where symptoms might match up. Secondary tests in the weeks after this waste-water tests might be conducted as well.
The only real scenario that works here? Some bus-load of Chinese tourists came through and had some marginalized symptoms with Covid-19. They stayed a night or two, and packed up to leave. If this were true....they would have gone to another tourist area, and additional waste-water would have been affected. It's just a long list of things which you then have to wonder about.
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Was it the Covid 19 corona virus in the waste water, that we are dealing with today, or another type?
SARS-CoV-2 Traces. (https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/sars-cov-2-detected-in-barcelona-water-study-from-march-2019)
It's not peer reviewed yet, and its going to beg more questions. I was actually in Barcelona during this time-period, and the high traffic of Chinese tourists in the city surprised me. It may trigger various tourist cities to go back and test waste water for the virus. One might go and ask the next question....did the Barcelona medical system have Chinese tourists showing up in this time period with related symptoms?
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