More evidence coronavirus had spread to the West BEFORE China came clean: LA doctors find evidence it may have been circulating in US MONTHS earlier than first reported case

More evidence coronavirus had spread to the West BEFORE China came clean: LA doctors find evidence it may have been circulating in US MONTHS earlier than first reported case

The scientists say that, between December and February, there may have been as many as 1,000 coronavirus patients in Los Angeles.

The finding is published after only yesterday a British family came forward with a coroner’s report saying that their relative, 84-year-old Peter Attwood, died of coronavirus after catching it in December.

Mr Attwood’s death came two months before the first death was officially recorded in Britain and has been officially attributed to the disease, despite China not announcing its existence until after the grandfather had already caught it.

US Media Can’t Think How to Fight Fires Without $1-an-Hour Prison Labor

US Media Can’t Think How to Fight Fires Without $1-an-Hour Prison Labor

Trained firefighters being good enough to work for nearly nothing, but ineligible to get real jobs, would seem to represent an even bigger irony — and a more important story — than California having to spend a few million dollars extra to fight two crises at once. But covering the wildfire story that way would require seeing it through the eyes of inmates, not of a government whose main concern is the inconvenience of having to pay people when you’re used to getting their work almost for free. That’s an argument we’ve heard before, of course — but one would have hoped it wouldn’t still be guiding news coverage nearly 200 years later.