• USA, Pompeo's accusations against China: "The virus comes from Wuhan's laboratory"

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June 08, 2020 An exponential increase in car traffic around the major hospitals in Wuhan last October suggests that coronavirus was already present and widespread in central China, well before the Beijing authorities informed the world.

This is what emerges from a study conducted by Harvard Medical School. Using techniques similar to those employed by intelligence agencies, the team of researchers analyzed satellite imagery and observed a "sharp increase in traffic outside the five main hospitals in Wuhan starting in late summer and early autumn 2019. "according to Dr. John Brownstein, who was head of the study.

Brownstein, an ABC collaborator, relaunching the results of the study, points out that the increase in car traffic around Wuhan hospitals "coincided with" an increase in searches on the Chinese internet network of "some symptoms that would later be closely associated to the new coronavirus. "

"Something was happening in October," says Brownstein, who is head of innovation at Boston Children's Hospital and director of the Computational Epidemiology Lab. '' Clearly there was some level of social unease well before what was later identified as the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. "Chinese authorities notified the World Health Organization only on December 31 that the new pathogen existed in Wuhan, while US intelligence, according to ABC sources, reported to the Pentagon of problems in China since the end of November.