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COVID19 in Spanish sewers from March 2019?!


lockdownquestions
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I have so many questions about COVID and I apologize if I'm coming across as "spammish".

Mid-year last year there was some news about COVID19 being found in Spanish sewer samples dated March 2019:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-science-idUSKBN23X2HQ

Anyone know what became of this? If this is true then it changes everything doesn't it? Questions need to be asked about why Spain was not hit hard in the winter of 2019/2020. Why were people instead affected late Spring?

So much about this virus and the handling of it makes no sense to me. It's beyond crazy.

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CoronanationStreet
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The article referred to the need to retest the samples - have you been able to find anything more out about whether they did so?

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Splatt
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Various papers have rubbished this study. Pretty terrible given lack of controls, calibration standards. It may well not be true.

The various ones pushing the date to Oct/Nov are a lot more robust.

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