NPR的原始報導就已明確寫道：Remuzzi says he is now hearing information about it from general practitioners. "They remember having seen very strange pneumonia, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even November," he says. "This means that the virus was circulating, at least in [the northern region of] Lombardy and before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.
（上述記載 Dr. Giuseppe Remuzz 所講的內容，在4-Minute Listen裡還有其受訪時的原音，一字不差）
譯：雷穆齊表示他正聽取著從全科醫師(或稱家庭醫師)傳來的訊息：「他們(指全科醫師)記得早在12月，甚至11月時，就曾見過非常奇特的肺炎，非常嚴重，尤其老年患者」他(指雷穆齊)表示:「這可能意謂著此時病毒至少已在倫巴第（北部地區）傳播，並且早在我們警覺到疫情正在中國爆發前」
