The Evidence COVID-19 Was Spreading Silently Around the World in Late 2019

ER Editor: Seasoned readers of Europe Reloaded know that this is a topic that has interested us greatly since the beginning. We recall that a Taiwanese virologist was warning the CDC during 2019 that cases of something RESEMBLING pulmonary fibrosis were evident on its territory; he was blown off. We also remember that the vaping problem UNIQUE TO THE U.S. was allegedly going around during the spring to fall of 2019. Vaping isn’t much practiced in the States compared to other countries in the world, yet it uniquely had this problem, a problem which seemed to vanish as mysteriously as it appeared. See this curious Wikipedia entry:

2019–2020 vaping lung illness outbreak

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) started in 2019[3] among users of illegal, unregulated cannabis vaping products,[2] almost exclusively in the United States.[4] The first cases of this particular outbreak were identified in Illinois and Wisconsin in April 2019; as of 18 February 2020, a total of 2,807 hospitalized cases, including 68 deaths, have been confirmed. According to the U.S Centers for Disease Control (CDC), “Vitamin E acetate is strongly linked to the EVALI outbreak…Evidence is not sufficient to rule out the contribution of other chemicals of concern, including chemicals in either THC or non-THC products, in some of the reported EVALI cases”.[2]

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The Evidence COVID-19 Was Spreading Silently Around the World in Late 2019

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There have been a number of studies that have gone back and tested stored samples for evidence of the coronavirus, either antibodies or viral RNA. One of the most intriguing is a study from Lombardy, northern Italy, by measles researchers who had spotted that Covid could cause a measles-like syndrome. They tested hundreds of stored samples taken during 2018-20 for both antibodies and viral RNA. The researchers found 11 samples positive for viral RNA from August 2019 to February 2020, including one from September, five from October, one from November and two from December. Four of these were also positive for antibodies, including the earliest sample from September 12th 2019 (both IgG and IgM). Note that these samples were from ill people so estimates cannot be made from them of community prevalence. The positive samples were genetically sequenced to reveal mutation information, reducing the chances of them being false positives. None of the 100 samples from August 2018 to July 2019 showed strong evidence of infection, further validating the methods used and suggesting to the researchers that the virus emerged around July 2019.

A separate study in northern Italy tested waste water from 2019 for viral RNA and found samples in Milan and Turin positive from December 18th, though negative prior to that, which is in contrast to the results of the first study. The samples were again genetically sequenced, adding to their reliability.

A Brazilian sewage study found SARS-CoV-2 RNA in samples from late November and December 2019, but not in two earlier samples from October and early November. The samples were taken from one site in the southern Brazilian city of Florianópolis and were genetically sequenced for confirmation.

An antibody study of archived Red Cross blood conducted by the U.S. CDC found 39 antibody-positive serum samples collected December 13th-16th 2019 in California, Washington and Oregon. Overall, 2% of blood samples collected from these states and for these dates tested positive for antibodies. The full results can be viewed in the table below. A 2% antibody prevalence in mid-December suggests significant community spread across America during November 2019. However, there were no earlier samples for comparison and no testing or sequencing of viral RNA for confirmation.

study of stored blood samples in France looked at routinely collected samples in a population cohort and found around 2% prevalence of antibodies in November, rising prevalence in December and around 5% prevalence in January. These figures do seem on the high side when compared to the above studies, and the lack of testing and sequencing of viral RNA and the absence of samples from earlier periods suggest this may be less reliable evidence.

Another Italian study tested blood samples from lung cancer screening for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and found 14% of those from September 2019 were positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. But again, this lacked testing and sequencing of viral RNA and negative controls from earlier periods. A Spanish study detected SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in a sample of waste water from Barcelona on March 12th 2019; however, all the other historic samples up to January 2020 were negative and it is suspected that this is a false positive due to contamination or cross-reaction (it wasn’t sequenced).

What about early spread in China? It’s hard to get reliable data for this country. However, a leaked Chinese Government report found hospital patients (recognised retrospectively) admitted in Wuhan as early as November 17th, suggesting the virus was spreading there during November and probably October.

A molecular clock study estimating the date at which the common ancestor of early viral samples was around put the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 as early as July, in China. A separate molecular clock study estimated the emergence between mid-October and mid-November in Hubei province, China.

So the evidence is clear that the virus was circulating both in China and internationally by November 2019 at the latest. We can also say with strong confidence that it was not circulating prior to July 2019, and it may not have been around before October 2019, depending on how reliable the European data from the early autumn are.

Some argue that all this evidence of early spread – despite coming from multiple sources and using robust validation methods such as sequencing – must be faulty in some way, as the lack of excess deaths prior to March 2020 makes it impossible for the virus to have been spreading widely over the autumn and winter. (ER: And excess deaths in March-April 2020, a sudden spike which quickly declined, can be accounted for by other causes, including shutting up carehomes and injecting residents with drugs like midazolam.)

My view is that this argument is insufficient to overcome the clear evidence of early spread. I don’t deny that there is something of a ‘mystery‘ that must be resolved, in that the wave of excess deaths did not begin until March 2020. Some sceptics resolve this ‘mystery’ by arguing that the virus must therefore be no more deadly than other similar viruses, and thus that any excess deaths since March 2020 must all have been caused by interventions such as lockdowns, faulty treatment protocols and vaccines. However, I agree with Dr. Pierre Kory that we have undeniable evidence of waves of severe pneumonia with a common clinical profile that began in March 2020 and that are best explained by the novel respiratory virus to which most of the deceased tested positive.

A good counterexample to the claim that all the excess deaths in the pandemic were caused by interventions and not the virus is South Dakota, which never imposed any interventions. Despite this laissez-faire approach it had a mild spring wave; yet then had a massive summer wave that resulted in greatly elevated deaths during the autumn. These deaths certainly can’t be put down to sudden panic: the state was so relaxed during its summer outbreak that it held a massive motorcycle rally.

So how to explain the lack of excess deaths during the autumn and winter of 2019-20?

The most important point to be made is that while SARS-CoV-2 was clearly circulating during that winter, it does not appear to have been the dominant virus either in the community or in care homes and hospitals. Thus while, say, 2% of the population may have contracted the virus during the winter, because it was competing with other, milder viruses and wasn’t running rampant among the high risk population, its impact was limited and it did not cause noticeable excess deaths.

The early-spread-sceptic’s objection to this point is that the virus is clearly highly infectious so if it was present and circulating, it’s simply not possible for it to have remained at a low level and not run rampant in, say, care homes, causing havoc.

But is it really true that the virus always causes a large wave of infections and deaths whenever it is present, and as soon as it arrives? The evidence suggests not. Just look at how it failed to take off in many places in spring 2020, not just South Dakota as described above, but Japan, South Korea, Germany, Eastern Europe and large parts of the U.S. India notably wasn’t hit hard till Delta in 2021, and East Asia not until Omicron. In other words, the virus doesn’t always do what we’d expect, and in particular it doesn’t always have a deadly wave as soon as it is present.

To illustrate, here’s the picture in the U.S. at the end of May 2020, after the initial wave. It’s a real patchwork, with clear concentrations of excess deaths around New York and Michigan, Illinois and Indiana, plus Louisiana and one or two other states. Many other states had very few excess deaths during the spring. Yet we know the virus was circulating widely in every state.

Then, by the following winter, excess deaths were high almost everywhere, meaning specific local treatment protocols or policy responses cannot be credited either with causing the deaths or averting them.

In Europe, too, there was huge variation in the impact during the initial spring wave, even though the virus was circulating everywhere.

This wasn’t owing to policy responses, however, as shown by the very different outcomes the following winter.

In line with these inconsistent outcomes, numerous studies have shown that outcomes during the first wave weren’t explained by policy responses. But they also aren’t explained by whether or not the virus was circulating, as it was circulating everywhere.

The evidence is clear then, from multiple studies with robust validation methods including genetic sequencing of viral RNA, that the virus was circulating globally since November 2019 at the latest, with some evidence of its presence as far back as July, though not earlier than that.

The most likely reason that there was not an explosive, deadly outbreak prior to March 2020 (or even later in many places) is that the virus was still in competition with other winter viruses so was not dominant or running rampant in hospitals and care homes. The large outbreaks from spring onwards may have been assisted by the emergence of new, more infectious (and possibly more deadly) variants. A winter Covid prevalence of around 2% largely among the low risk could easily go unnoticed among the usual winter diseases without triggering noticeable surges in hospital admissions and deaths.

On this evidence it seems we can definitively rule out both an emergence before July 2019 (too many negatives and just one questionable positive) and after November 2019 (too many positives in a number of countries). The evidence is not currently consistent or robust enough to be able to pin it down more definitively than that.

There should, of course, be much more evidence on early spread. The World Health Organisation called in June 2020 for early spread to be properly investigated. However, very little has been done, and particularly in the United States, the various Government agencies have made no efforts to investigate early spread as part of their general neglect and squashing of all investigations into Covid origins.

Such silence and obfuscation only raises suspicions. And there is no shortage of reasons to be suspicious. The lack of genetic diversity in early samples, the high degree of adaption to humans from the outset, the absence of animal reservoirs and the presence of unique features that make the virus highly infectious among humans suggest that it was not natural but engineered, and thus either leaked from a lab or was released.

Who was involved in the research that created the virus and the course of events that led to its getting into the human population is therefore a question of great importance that must continue to be pursued.

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7 Comments on The Evidence COVID-19 Was Spreading Silently Around the World in Late 2019

  1. I am a firm believer this ‘covid’ sickness started even earlier: in October, 2018 my elder brother came to visit from Prince Rupert, BC with a grotesquely phlegmy ‘cold’, weak, dr diagnosed ‘flu’. He recovers, returns home.
    Then, 2 months later, Alberta, week of Dec 17, 2018 – Me – bedridden, first time in my life, with a ‘flu’ (no medical diagnosis – I try to practice whole-health, so dr appt’s are infrequent) ..symptoms – lungs had deep coughing, excessive phlegm similar to pneumonia, but no real breathing issues (odd); extreme headaches; and this one – severe and aching pain in my body (no prior injuries, no drug use, nothing to relate to) to the point of crying and constant micro-moves to try to relieve the pain. Duration was about 2-3 days, and then it was gone. Gone. I felt like I was going to die, having never experienced anything like it before, or since.
    I have a theory that there were trial runs of their ‘covid virus’.
    Anyone here remember the horrific ‘flu’ that raced around our camps in Fort McMurray, Alberta with people being rushed to hosp. in ambulances, some dying? I do, I was there, possibly 2016/2017(?) and got sick. It was a flu but there was a lot of talk of how ‘this is the worst flu I’ve ever seen’ going around, with a genuine fear in the air.
    So, what were those sicks? Influenzas mutating? Possibly.
    Me, I think not.

  2. Many thanks for this. People close to us got the bizarre (truly) laundry list of ‘Covid’ symptoms around March 2020. Symptoms disappeared after 5 days, then returned like clockwork at 15 days. Leaving them sick for the rest of the month. Identical playing out in S.Africa, except the magic number was 8, not 15. Yes, lung symptoms at the outset, too. There has been ‘something’ but what it is is still not clear. Dr. Shankara Chetty is one of the best doctors testifying to the patterns observed in different ethnic groups through 4 ‘waves’. 2019 as a year for health deserves significant enquiry.

  3. My personal testimony. I was terribly sick late 2019. High fever, slept all day, difficulty breathing. Twice, when I took a shower in the morning, I fainted. (Probably due to temperature change or something).

    Luckily this was only for a few days, and I felt invigorated after. The thing is I almost never get sick.

  4. Evidence that all C0VID data is 100% false – worldwide fraud uncovered!

    EXPOSING GLOBAL COVID FRAUD
    It is hard to believe that such a global deception could occur, yet the evidence is all here. Thousands of medical doctors, nurses, and patients around the world testify of completely false covid registrations. Funeral directors confirm countless false death certificates.

    Check the evidence for yourself…

    https://stopworldcontrol.com/fraud/

  5. America’s Frontline Doctors spoke to numerous funeral home directors over the last two years and the consensus is that they all have witnessed grossly exaggerated COVID mortality figures and suppression of information within the industry, and that the only time deaths actually skyrocketed coincided with the start of the vaccine campaign:

    There has been very very few deaths before the vaccinations started , deaths have been like every other year. We have seen no increase at all in deaths just the causes have completely changed . Over the last two years nearly every death whether it’s regular flu , accidents , suicide etc.. is listed as covid even when the deaths clearly have nothing to do with covid .

  6. If you really look into this and “study” deeper, you will know the “virus” hit sooner than the late 2019’s as well. We went on a cruise in the beginning of February 2019, and my parents were sick the entire time (same symptoms) tired, weak, sick, sick. Thank God they got better and are here today. From day one never wore masks, went into public where they wanted to go. It’s not covid that is murdering everyone, (just like the Spanish flu) It’s the “jab” and the “medication” these evil people are pushing onto the people.

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