Study suggests virus in US last December

By Nancy Lapid
Updated December 3 2020 - 6:24am, first published 6:20am
An analysis of blood donations indicates the coronavirus infected people in the US in December 2019.
An analysis of blood donations indicates the coronavirus infected people in the US in December 2019.

The coronavirus may have been circulating in the United States last December, well before the first COVID-19 case was diagnosed on January 19, a new analysis of donated blood suggests.

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