Health
Coronavirus was circulating in New York by February, research shows – Financial Times
Findings indicate the virus was present weeks before first confirmed case in early March
The virus that causes Covid-19 was present in New York City weeks before the first confirmed case of the disease, infecting more than 1.7m New Yorkers and killing them at a rate 10 times greater than flu, a new research paper has shown.
Researchers have discovered antibodies to the virus in samples from February as part of a study of more than 10,000 plasma samples conducted at Mount Sinai, the New York-based hospital system, and published in a peer-reviewed paper in the science journal Nature…
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