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French hospital discovers Covid-19 case from December

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Re: French hospital discovers Covid-19 case from December

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the article: > Each sample was retested several times to ensure that there were no errors, he added

I still think a contaminated sample is more likely, all else being equal. Not saying this is impossible, but would like to see at least a few other cases this early. If this patient had not been to China then there must be some. And if this turns out to be a true positive then it indicates the virus is so contagious that it spread that far and wide, that quickly, that overall infection must be much more widespread th…

His wife worked together with people from China.

Re: French hospital discovers Covid-19 case from December

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Talking about Covid, France is one strange outlier. Something is happening with their numbers.

What do you mean?

pvaldes explains this in another Hacker News discussion: see pvaldes post that starts with

"We have a single virus, but it does not behave the same."

in pvaldes profile at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pvaldes

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