"When you add it all up it would be naïve to think that California did not have some exposure." //

California has had lower-than-expected coronavirus case numbers during the current pandemic, and one hypothesis has been that the illness started spreading in the state in the fall of 2019, much earlier than previously thought. //

Hanson said he thinks it is possible COVID-19 has been spreading among Californians since the fall when doctors reported an early flu season in the state. During that same time, California was welcoming as many as 8,000 Chinese nationals daily into our airports. Some of those visitors even arriving on direct flights from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China.