That's very disturbing.

It's coming to light that COVID was in Italy much earlier than thought, as early as September 2019. Given how this journalist was treated by the Chinese govt., it's easy to see how they could have known about COVID months earlier than admitted but kept it under wraps.

I wonder what was going on around Wuhan in late 2019, from, say, August on.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-timing-idUSKBN27V0KF

"The WHO said it would contact the paper’s authors “to discuss and arrange for further analyses of available samples and verification of the neutralization results”.

I wonder what will come of that. Won't China then have some questions to answer? Or is the WHO going to conveniently explain it away as bad science?