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New analysis suggests that assumptions about the source of early cases in Washington state might have been wrong, but the resulting reaction may have prevented a more severe outbreak
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- Title
- Washington's COVID-19 outbreak may have begun a month later than we thought
- Authors
- Beth Mole
- Published
- May 29 2020
- Word count
- 1544 words
The Ars Technica article is a good write-up, but it specifically focuses on the Washington cases. The actual analysis (downloadable in PDF from a link in the top right) also looks at early cases in Europe (Germany and Italy in particular) and finds a similar result: that the Italy outbreak seems to have been seeded with an independently introduced case later, not undetected transmission from Germany.