05/14/2020

Ohio Traces First Probable Case of COVID-19 to Early January

This is much earlier than the previous March date

Ohio health officials have traced the state’s first probable case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) to Jan. 7, two weeks before the first confirmed U.S. “patient zero” in Washington state.

Ohio Health Department Director Amy Acton said at a Monday press briefing that antibodies testing has found five people who contracted symptoms in January, a figure that the department has since updated to six.

“We actually have a new date of onset,” Acton said. “We have found five cases now that the date of onset of symptoms was in January. Five different cases so far, five different counties.”

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Times.