A new scientific study made international headlines on 1 December when it proved that Covid-19 had been circulating in the USA in December 2019, at least a month – and almost certainly more – earlier than had previously been demonstrated. Blood donations collected in nine states by the American Red Cross between 13 December 2019 and 17 January 2020 were tested. Blood from all nine states – California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin – tested positive for anti-SARS-CoV-2-reactive antibodies. The earliest studied sample were from the west coast (California and Washington state), collected 13-16 December. Of these, 2% of these individuals had been infected with Covid-19 and had time to develop antibodies. It takes around three weeks after infection for the body to develop sufficient antibodies to be identified by a test.
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Perhaps we are reaching, finally and belatedly, the point where it is more widely recognized that “the science” does not support the standard response to close everything down.