Novel coronavirus circulated undetected months before first COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China

Link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210318185328.htm

Excerpt:

Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at the University of Arizona and Illumina, Inc., estimate that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was likely circulating undetected for at most two months before the first human cases of COVID-19 were described in Wuhan, China in late-December 2019.

Writing in the March 18, 2021 online issue of Science, they also note that their simulations suggest that the mutating virus dies out naturally more than three-quarters of the time without causing an epidemic.

Publication Date: 18 March 2021

Publication Site: Science Daily