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The Smoking Gun: Where is the coronavirus? The CDC says it isn’t available. Oct 8 by Jon Rappoport by Jon Rappoport October 8, 2020 (To join our email list, click here.) The CDC document is titled, “CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel.” It is dated July 13, 2020. Buried deep in the document, on page 39 [The ‘Dec 1, 2020’ version moved it to page 42], in a section titled, “Performance Characteristics,” we have this: “Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV are currently available, assays [diagnostic tests] designed for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA were tested...

Sars crackdown in North Korea isolates foreigners By Jasper Becker in Beijing 09 May 2003 North Korea has taken 20 foreigners into quarantine and closed its borders in response to severe acute respiratory syndrome. The move may threaten the delivery of emergency food aid. "They cancelled May Day celebrations, stopped flights and anyone coming in is put into quarantine for 10 days," a Westerner living in Pyongyang said yesterday. "They are taking it very seriously. Anyone from an affected area is being quarantined," he said. The foreigners, who include two diplomats, are being kept together in a hotel near the...