Research into COVID-19 is evolving by the day, and Local 4′s Dr. Frank McGeorge is constantly reviewing new studies that shape our understanding of the virus. France has since found evidence of the virus spreading even earlier. Back then, nobody had any test for the coronavirus and they didn’t believe it had spread beyond China. The paper also identified nearly 200 recurrent mutations that the researchers believe are helping the virus evolve and adapt to infecting humans. The conclusions are food for thought, but they’re based on mathematical assumptions, so it would be premature to overreact now.