Blame Enough to Go Around

Chinese wet markets are the proximate source of the Covid-19 virus and the Chinese government initial response was not truthful and allowed for early spread of the virus outside of China.  However, once the danger of the virus became clear, the Chinese response helped reduce the spread of the disease.  Unfortunately by then the virus had spread drastically in Europe.  And, European travelers managed to spread the virus to far more countries than Chinese travelers.

The Intercept went through news reports of Covid-19 index cases across the world, and the results were startling. Travel from and within Europe preceded the first coronavirus cases in at least 93 countries across all five continents, accounting for more than half of the world’s index cases. Travel from Italy alone preceded index cases in at least 46 countries, compared to 27 countries associated with travel from China.