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There's minimal (ie, no) data to back that up that assertion.

Here's the timeline of first detection after China:

  • January 13 Thailand
  • January 16 Japan
  • January 20 South Korea
  • January 21 United States
  • January 25 Australia, France, Canada, Malaysia
  • January 27 Cambodia, Germany, Sri Lanka

and after that it really started breaking out.

It was first detected in the US days before it was detected in Europe. No travel restrictions from China or other Southeast Asian nations were ever put in place, so nothing stopped travel from any of those countries directly to the US.

Further, the lack of testing in the US makes it impossible at the moment to determine how far it might have spread and be spreading internally. Based on evidence from Canada where new cases have been traced back the United States, it's just as possible that the US introduced the virus to European countries as is the reverse.

There's minimal (ie, no) data to back that up that assertion.

Here's the timeline of first detection after China:

  • January 13 Thailand
  • January 16 Japan
  • January 20 South Korea
  • January 21 United States
  • January 25 Australia, France, Canada, Malaysia
  • January 27 Cambodia, Germany, Sri Lanka

and after that it really started breaking out.

It was first detected in the US days before it was detected in Europe. No travel restrictions from China or other Southeast Asian nations were ever put in place, so nothing stopped travel from any of those countries directly to the US.

Further, the lack of testing in the US makes it impossible at the moment to determine how far it might have spread and be spreading internally. Based on evidence from Canada where new cases have been traced back the United States, it's just as possible that the US introduced the virus to European countries as is the reverse.

There's minimal (ie, no) data to back that up that assertion.

Here's the timeline of first detection after China:

  • January 13 Thailand
  • January 16 Japan
  • January 20 South Korea
  • January 21 United States
  • January 25 Australia, France, Canada, Malaysia
  • January 27 Cambodia, Germany, Sri Lanka

and after that it really started breaking out.

It was first detected in the US days before it was detected in Europe.

Further, the lack of testing in the US makes it impossible at the moment to determine how far it might have spread and be spreading internally. Based on evidence from Canada where new cases have been traced back the United States, it's just as possible that the US introduced the virus to European countries as is the reverse.

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Keith Morrison
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There's minimal (ie, no) data to back that up that assertion.

Here's the timeline of first detection after China:

  • January 13 Thailand
  • January 16 Japan
  • January 20 South Korea
  • January 21 United States
  • January 25 Australia, France, Canada, Malaysia
  • January 27 Cambodia, Germany, Sri Lanka

and after that it really started breaking out.

It was first detected in the US days before it was detected in Europe. No travel restrictions from China or other Southeast Asian nations were ever put in place, so nothing stopped travel from any of those countries directly to the US.

Further, the lack of testing in the US makes it impossible at the moment to determine how far it might have spread and be spreading internally. Based on evidence from Canada where new cases have been traced back the United States, it's just as possible that the US introduced the virus to European countries as is the reverse.