Coronavirus may have spread to humans as early as October 2019 - study
"Phylogenetic estimates support that the COVID-2 pandemic started sometime around Oct. 6, 2019 to Dec. 11, 2019, which corresponds to the time of the host jump into humans."
An illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), depicts the 2019 Novel Coronavirus(photo credit: MAM/CDC/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)ByREUTERS