From Wuhan to Paris to Milan, the search for ‘patient zero’

On Dec. 8, 2019, the accountant began to feel ill. He did not frequent Wuhan’s Huanan seafood market, he would later tell World Health Organization experts investigating the coronavirus’s origin. He preferred the RT-Mart near his home on the eastern bank of the Yangtze River — a sleek, multistory supermarket where […]