//Researchers: Satellite, web search data suggests China may have been hit with coronavirus earlier than thought

Researchers: Satellite, web search data suggests China may have been hit with coronavirus earlier than thought

Notable spikes in internet search traffic and satellite data point to the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic had started in Wuhan, China, and began spreading some months before officials warned the World Health Organization, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School.The research team employed similar data collection strategies seen in intelligence agencies to analyze commercial satellite imagery and data as far back as October 2019