COVID-19 was in the United States before Trump started talking about the travel bans. Also, we don’t even know for an absolute fact the virus started in China. Spanish and Italisn water samples from August and September of ’19 suggest the virus may have been there first. It could also have been carried into China by a flea on a boat from Tasmania, for all we know, or simply started in a country which was very NEAR China. We do not in any way know for sure.
