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> We are now 16 months into the most serious global pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1919, and we still don’t know the origin of the virus.

Weird way to start out the article, given that we don't actually know where the Spanish flu came from.

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We have slightly more resources now to find out than in 1918...

We still lack a time machine to gather short lived evidence from 2 years ago.

That would assume all evidence is completely gone by now.

We know the spanish flu came from Kansas.

The first observations of mortality were observed in Kansas in March 1918, but then in April it was already in France, Germany, and the UK. The first recorded case was an army cook in Kansas, but researchers believe there were likely cases before this. So, it's hard to know for sure exactly where the index case arose.

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