The first people who sought help from Covid-19 or the Wuhan Flu are mapped. The City of Wuhan map below shows the first intense cluster from before January 20 2020 was on a couple streets between the two virus research sites. (There was a second site nearby). The fish market and other early reporting incidents are few in number and scattered far. The article claims the people in the scattered reports had visited that same two street area.
UPDATE: The above is from Gateway Pundit's report but it links to an underlying China-sourced document with extended documentation. It is published at mdpi as "Exploring Urban Spatial Features of COVID-19 Transmission in Wuhan Based on Social Media Data". (Peng,Wang, Liu and Wu).The data was collected incidental to a larger study and is based on geotags of the people who voluntarily went online to ask for help. (The larger study looks at ages of the reporting patients, and the distribution of cases at later dates, again relying on geotags and cellular phone location data.) During the early spread, medical resources were overstretched and many turned to social media Sina Weibo which built an on-line medical help channel. This is the only tightly documented mapping I have seen of the early virus spread.
The triptych is from the study, showing Wuhan-based flu social media mapping in three different time frames. The one on the left covers Dec 20 to Jan 22nd and is reproduced in greater detail below as printed by Gateway Pundit. The red dot is the notorious sea food market. The Black Star is the Wuhan institute so often in the news. The yellow square is a lesser know virus research location near the former.
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