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Ca? Where from?

Born in Walnut Creek, lived all over CA and the rest of the country as her dad moved jobs.

Is the purpose of those three news stories to justify that COVID was here sooner than thought?

Because at least two of the three specifically call out that the strains were split between Influenza A and Influenza B, not that there was some strange coronavirus that had appeared. I'm assuming that if they know enough to say it was split between Influenza A and B, they know enough to differentiate between the flu and a coronavirus.

I'd buy the argument if we were seeing similar symptoms earlier and didn't know the source, but in this case they determined the source.

I was poking around to see what was out there. Not trying to prove anything, but I do know many doctors, including mine, feel that there was a lot of mis-diagnosis going on in November, December and January.

I was poking around to see what was out there. Not trying to prove anything, but I do know many doctors, including mine, feel that there was a lot of mis-diagnosis going on in November, December and January.

I am honestly quite sympathetic to the idea that there was some misdiagnosis. I think it might have been here sooner, but wasn't particularly widespread. 

I'm not sure how much sampling they do of people who have flu symptoms to identify the actual root virus as the cause, but clearly from these articles they were doing enough random sampling to know the specific strains they were seeing. If they had LARGE numbers of people exhibiting flu symptoms and not carrying either Influenza A or B virus, I would think it would have raised red flags. 

So even if it was here, I'm not sure the numbers were high enough to make a difference.

Where do you suppose you got it?

SoCal offices trips the 15% ICU capacity trigger. Stay-at-home in effect in 48 hours.