
Where are all those people who were laughing, saying that there's no way it was here in January?
They had to go back and test these corpses because it just looked so suspicious.
Two Californians died of coronavirus weeks before previously known 1st US death - CNN
Dr. Sara Cody, the county's chief medical officer, told The New York Times that the two had no known travel histories to China or anywhere else that would have exposed them to the virus. They are presumed to have caught the virus through community spread, she told the Times.
"That is a very significant finding," Dr. Ashish K. Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told CNN's "New Day" on Wednesday.
"Somebody who died on February 6, they probably contracted that virus early to mid-January. It takes at least two to three weeks from the time you contract the virus and you die from it."
If they did not contract coronavirus through travel abroad, that also is significant, Jha said.
"Therefore, that means there was community spread happening in California as early as mid-January, if not earlier than that," Jha said.
"We really need to now go back, look at a lot more cases from January -- even December -- and try to sort out when did we first really encounter this virus in the United States," Jha said.