Then autopsy results showed that a patient died of COVID-19 in California as early as February 6th, three weeks earlier than the first reported COVID-19 death in America.

The CDC now says that it found limited evidence of the early spread of COVID-19 within the US in late January and early February.

The CDC says that it has never been blind to the arrival of COVID-19, although the agency’s overall response and the early testing fumble have been widely criticized, as they led to the unchecked transmission of the virus.

The researchers analyzed genetic sequences from infected people and said the patient who started the first chain of transmission came from either Asia or Canada

Transmission could have started as early as February 7th, or as late as February 19th

The CDC researchers challenge the Arizona study, which in turn challenged different research that said the COVID-19 outbreak started in Washington with the first patient who returned to China on January 15th

Whatever the case, this new CDC study makes it clear that COVID-19 community transmission started much earlier than believed, and the disease was spreading undetected at a time when the world was already warned about the dangers of the novel coronavirus