Our publication for Thursday, June 11 reported on a new paper from Harvard University claiming that the coronavirus actually broke out in fall 2019 based on analysis of traffic patterns near hospitals, as well as high search volume for “diarrhea” in that time period.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42669767
This is extremely similar to another study, released in early May: a sloppy study produced by MACE, a part of Sierra Nevada, a major Department of Defense contractor, which used similar data sources — changes in cellphone use and traffic data — to prove that a disaster occurred at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in October. That report made the rounds at Capitol Hill.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6884792/MACE-E-PAI-COVID-19-ANALYSIS-Redacted.pdf
The central claims of that MACE article are handily debunked by The Daily Beast and those debunkings are summarized at Business Insider. The change in traffic patterns observed was due to road construction. A Wuhan Institute of Virology conference that MACE claimed was canceled actually took place.
