Evidence supports SARS-CoV-2 was in Italy as early as Nov 2019

Came back to N America from London in late November 2019. Spent the holiday in London, Salisbury and Cambridge while the latter in particular had a large number of visitors due to Fall graduation. London always has a large number of visitors. Thought we picked up a cold, which turned out into a 3+ week dry cough and shortness of breath for me and real shortness of breath for the wife. She's still showing signs of lung inflammation.

Anecdotally, various coworkers said they were particularly sick with flu-like symptoms that hung on in Nov/Dec 2019. Whatever it was, pretty much all the medical folks we've seen indicate it was viral pneumonia. Way too long ago, unfortunately, for antibody testing and there's no saved blood tests.