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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 4524904" data-attributes="member: 1940"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/satellite-data-suggests-coronavirus-hit-china-earlier-researchers/story?id=71123270" target="_blank">Satellite data suggests coronavirus may have hit China earlier</a>Dramatic spikes in auto traffic around major hospitals in Wuhan last fall suggest the novel <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/coronavirus" target="_blank">coronavirus</a> may have been present and spreading through central China long before the outbreak was first reported to the world, according to a new Harvard Medical School study.Using techniques similar to those employed by intelligence agencies, the research team behind the study analyzed commercial satellite imagery and &quot;observed a dramatic increase in hospital traffic outside five major Wuhan hospitals beginning late summer and early fall 2019,&quot; according to Dr. John Brownstein, the Harvard Medical professor who led the research.<a href="https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/42669767/Satellite_Images_Baidu_COVID19_manuscript_DASH.pdf?sequence=3&amp;isAllowed=y" target="_blank">Analysis of hospital traffic and search engine data in WuhanChinaindicates early disease activity in the Fall of 2019</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 4524904, member: 1940"] [URL='https://abcnews.go.com/International/satellite-data-suggests-coronavirus-hit-china-earlier-researchers/story?id=71123270'][SIZE=5][B]Satellite data suggests coronavirus may have hit China earlier[/B][/SIZE][/URL] Dramatic spikes in auto traffic around major hospitals in Wuhan last fall suggest the novel [URL='https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/coronavirus']coronavirus[/URL] may have been present and spreading through central China long before the outbreak was first reported to the world, according to a new Harvard Medical School study. Using techniques similar to those employed by intelligence agencies, the research team behind the study analyzed commercial satellite imagery and "observed a dramatic increase in hospital traffic outside five major Wuhan hospitals beginning late summer and early fall 2019," according to Dr. John Brownstein, the Harvard Medical professor who led the research. [URL='https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/42669767/Satellite_Images_Baidu_COVID19_manuscript_DASH.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y'][B]Analysis of hospital traffic and search engine data in WuhanChinaindicates early disease activity in the Fall of 2019[/B][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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