{"id":6654,"date":"2020-05-06T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:23:13","slug":"sars-cov-2-was-already-spreading-in-france-in-late-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/06\/sars-cov-2-was-already-spreading-in-france-in-late-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-COV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Deslandes et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0report\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the retrospective identification by RT-PCR of a patient with SARS-CoV-2 in Paris in December 2019. The patient\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hospitalized in December 2019 for hemoptysis with no etiological diagnosis<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">stored respiratory sample. Based on this result, it appears that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was already spreading in France in late December 2019, a month before the\u00a0official first\u00a0cases in the country.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Deslandes et al. (May 3, 2020). SARS-COV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijantimicag.2020.106006\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijantimicag.2020.106006<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deslandes et al.\u00a0report\u00a0the retrospective identification by RT-PCR of a patient with SARS-CoV-2 in Paris in December 2019. The patient\u00a0hospitalized in December 2019 for hemoptysis with no etiological diagnosis. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in\u00a0a\u00a0stored respiratory sample. Based on this result, it appears that\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0was already spreading in France in late December 2019, a month before the\u00a0official first\u00a0cases&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/06\/sars-cov-2-was-already-spreading-in-france-in-late-december-2019\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6655,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}