Posted on 03/13/2020 12:15:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
New government documents out of China claim to have found the earliest case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in a 55-year-old man from Hubei province.
The documents, which were seen by the South China Morning Post, show the man contracted the illness on Nov. 17, 2019, predating the World Health Organization's first confirmed case on Dec. 8 and suggesting the disease could have spread undetected for weeks before serious measures were taken to mitigate the outbreak.
More than 250 cases of COVID-19 from 2019 have been confirmed by Chinese officials, who didn't alert global authorities to the rise in cases until President Xi Jinping sounded the alarm on Jan. 7, nearly two months after the first infections.
Though officials are unsure if the 55-year-old man is the first patient to contract the disease, which is believed to have originated in Wuhan, he is the earliest case discovered so far. The virus has spread rapidly across the globe, infecting more than 130,000 people and killing more than 5,000, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker. For doctors and scientists, locating patient zero is important as they attempt to establish a timeline and possible origin of the virus.
The documents also suggest the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention slow-walked its response, attempting to downplay concerns and silence whistleblowers for releasing information about the mystery illness. Li Wenliang, a doctor who alerts other medical professionals of the disease, was forced to recant his statements before succumbing to the disease himself.
So THAT'S who our CDC took their cue from...!
and its been in the US since I believe mid january maybe even earlier than that..I think many many people already had it, thought they had the flu, got over it and moved on
Lesson: You can not depend on government to do anything correctly, no matter which government you are referring to.
And, we trust the ChiComs on anything?
The WUHAN virus.
Could very well be.
All the while....infecting others.
so they are admitting it didn’t start at the Wuhan wet food market in DEC? Someone brought it there?
A Chinese dude wearing a MAGA hat
He had to get it from somewhere...................
Did he work at the Bio Lab. I heard Tucker say that from a since deleted Chinese source the virus was released by accident by a technician at the Bio Lab. Not a weapon but a research experiment failure.
And they call that a pandemic? What did they call Swine Flu? The Apocalypse?
My sisters neighbors(And good friends) in early February both had a bad fever, bad cough, the husband had pneumonia(Was given medicine and felt better a few days later) the wife was sick for a week and a half, very tired, coughing like crazy..their 4 year old and baby never got sick, now she thinks maybe they both had coronavirus, but if the husband got better with meds no way could it have been that, since we know that pneumonia from coronavirus cant be treated with medication
If the first case DISCOVERED was in China in mid November you can bet it was working before that and given the extensive travel between China and America it has probably been here near end of Nov and beginning of December.
That’s 3.5 months and only a handful reported here? Must be something to the fact this virus very much favors Asians
+100
Some Chinese researchers claim there are two strains, an older milder one and a more virulent descendant. So the milder one could have been circulating months, even years before mutating and getting itself noticed.
Maybe that’s why kids seem mostly unaffected, the little germ magnets were already infected by the old mild one and have better resistance to this newer iteration.
It could also mutate itself back out of virulence and return to being just the sniffles that nobody notices.
Wait wait wait wait wait. I thought Wuhan, China, is in the weapons development labs of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Scientist in Italy have tracked their first case back to November.
Our CDC didn’t take their cue from China. It has been far too political and woke for decades.
When AIDS hit the VA hospital system. political correctness superceded both patient and staff safety. At a point when the cause was unknown, where the cause hung out wasn’t known, and all routes of infection were unknown it was verboten to use gowns, gloves, etc to protect wither. Didn’t want the patient to feel bad.
He should be Time’s Man of the Year ...
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