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1. WASHINGTON—Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report that could add weight to growing calls for a fuller probe of whether the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from the laboratory.
The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness.”
The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into Covid-19’s origins....
November 2019 is roughly when many epidemiologists and virologists believe SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the pandemic, first began circulating around the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where Beijing says that the first confirmed case was a man who fell ill on Dec. 8, 2019....
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/intell...b-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228
2. Bingo! The three reporters seem to believe they have hit the jackpot in the discovery of "Patient Zero" in Wuhan Institute of Virology. Unfortunately for them, there were many others who had been struck by a mysterious illness in Wuhan and elsewhere in October or even earlier.
Instead of cooking up a stale story from an old conspiracy theory by the self-declared ex-president and his henchmen, the three reporters should look elsewhere for better "recipes" which might lead them to "Patient Zero".
(A) The coronavirus outbreak could have started as early as mid-September, and the Chinese city of Wuhan may not be where it began, a scientist looking at the origins of the disease has said.
Geneticist Peter Forster, from the U.K.'s University of Cambridge, is leading a research project to understand the historical processes that led to the COVID-19 pandemic...
He said it is possible the outbreak did not originate in Wuhan, as until January 17, almost all the isolates were type B...
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-outbreak-september-not-wuhan-1498566
(B) An investigative study on coronavirus revealed that Covid-19 was circulating in Italy by September 2019, months before the first documented case was reported in China’s Wuhan, as per media reports.
The research was carried by the scientists at Milan’s National Cancer Institute (INT)....
Source: https://www.thehindubusinessline.co...utbreak-reveal-scientists/article33131493.ece
(C) ....In France, a cluster of cases was discovered in late January.
But a new study published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents has suggested the virus was already in the country a month earlier.
A retrospective analysis of samples taken from 14 intensive care patients with influenza-like symptoms at the Avicenne and Jean-Verdier hospitals in Paris found one positive COVID-19 case -- a 42-year-old French resident who had not visited China. He was hospitalised on December 27.
Olivier Bouchaud, head of the infectious diseases department at Avicenne said at first the virus spreads "quietly in the population, without anyone detecting its presence"......
Other countries are discovering they may have had earlier infections. In the United States, autopsies performed on suspicious deaths in California have revealed infections before the first official case on January 21....
Source: https://news.yahoo.com/virus-detectives-tracking-covid-19-genetic-origins-173554839.html
(D) More athletes have revealed that they fell ill during the Military World Games in October when the Chinese city of Wuhan hosted the event months before the COVID-19 outbreak.
Taking place in October, the allegations came two months before the first identification of COVID-19 by China.
Close to 10,000 competitors competed at the Games from over 100 countries during the nine-day event....
Source: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1094347/world-military-games-illness-covid-19
(E) In October 2019, the US brought 172 (really 369) military athletes to Wuhan for the World Military Games. Despite having the largest military in the world, tenfold, the US came in 35th behind nations like Iran, Finland and Slovenia. No video or photos exist of the US team, no records were kept, a huge team but a pitiful performance for the best military in the world.
Source: https://thealtworld.com/gordon_duff...rmy-team-for-military-games-evidence-mounting
(F) WASHINGTON – Less than a month before data shows the first Chinese citizen became ill with coronavirus, nearly 300 members of the U.S. military, Department of Defense, and support personnel attended the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China. When the games ended, they returned to at least 219 home bases in 25 states, without ever being screened for possible COVID-19 infection....
Athletes who participated from other nations—both U.S. allies like France and Italy and adversaries like Iran—have reported suffering from COVID-19 symptoms. Some Iranian athletes died from COVID-19, including some who were in Wuhan, according to news reports not verified by Tehran.
The Pentagon’s reluctance to test athletes returning from Wuhan was not unique. No other nation’s military appears to have tested their participants in the 2019 World Military Games specifically for COVID-19. French doctors examined their athletes upon their return from the games as part of overall exams.
When asked why the athletes and support staff who had been in China were not screened as a precaution once the COVID-19 threat was known in January, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said at the end of an April 14 press conference: “I am not aware of what you are talking about.”...
Source: https://prospect.org/coronavirus/did-the-military-world-games-spread-covid-19/
The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness.”
The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into Covid-19’s origins....
November 2019 is roughly when many epidemiologists and virologists believe SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the pandemic, first began circulating around the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where Beijing says that the first confirmed case was a man who fell ill on Dec. 8, 2019....
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/intell...b-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228
2. Bingo! The three reporters seem to believe they have hit the jackpot in the discovery of "Patient Zero" in Wuhan Institute of Virology. Unfortunately for them, there were many others who had been struck by a mysterious illness in Wuhan and elsewhere in October or even earlier.
Instead of cooking up a stale story from an old conspiracy theory by the self-declared ex-president and his henchmen, the three reporters should look elsewhere for better "recipes" which might lead them to "Patient Zero".
(A) The coronavirus outbreak could have started as early as mid-September, and the Chinese city of Wuhan may not be where it began, a scientist looking at the origins of the disease has said.
Geneticist Peter Forster, from the U.K.'s University of Cambridge, is leading a research project to understand the historical processes that led to the COVID-19 pandemic...
He said it is possible the outbreak did not originate in Wuhan, as until January 17, almost all the isolates were type B...
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-outbreak-september-not-wuhan-1498566
(B) An investigative study on coronavirus revealed that Covid-19 was circulating in Italy by September 2019, months before the first documented case was reported in China’s Wuhan, as per media reports.
The research was carried by the scientists at Milan’s National Cancer Institute (INT)....
Source: https://www.thehindubusinessline.co...utbreak-reveal-scientists/article33131493.ece
(C) ....In France, a cluster of cases was discovered in late January.
But a new study published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents has suggested the virus was already in the country a month earlier.
A retrospective analysis of samples taken from 14 intensive care patients with influenza-like symptoms at the Avicenne and Jean-Verdier hospitals in Paris found one positive COVID-19 case -- a 42-year-old French resident who had not visited China. He was hospitalised on December 27.
Olivier Bouchaud, head of the infectious diseases department at Avicenne said at first the virus spreads "quietly in the population, without anyone detecting its presence"......
Other countries are discovering they may have had earlier infections. In the United States, autopsies performed on suspicious deaths in California have revealed infections before the first official case on January 21....
Source: https://news.yahoo.com/virus-detectives-tracking-covid-19-genetic-origins-173554839.html
(D) More athletes have revealed that they fell ill during the Military World Games in October when the Chinese city of Wuhan hosted the event months before the COVID-19 outbreak.
Taking place in October, the allegations came two months before the first identification of COVID-19 by China.
Close to 10,000 competitors competed at the Games from over 100 countries during the nine-day event....
Source: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1094347/world-military-games-illness-covid-19
(E) In October 2019, the US brought 172 (really 369) military athletes to Wuhan for the World Military Games. Despite having the largest military in the world, tenfold, the US came in 35th behind nations like Iran, Finland and Slovenia. No video or photos exist of the US team, no records were kept, a huge team but a pitiful performance for the best military in the world.
Source: https://thealtworld.com/gordon_duff...rmy-team-for-military-games-evidence-mounting
(F) WASHINGTON – Less than a month before data shows the first Chinese citizen became ill with coronavirus, nearly 300 members of the U.S. military, Department of Defense, and support personnel attended the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China. When the games ended, they returned to at least 219 home bases in 25 states, without ever being screened for possible COVID-19 infection....
Athletes who participated from other nations—both U.S. allies like France and Italy and adversaries like Iran—have reported suffering from COVID-19 symptoms. Some Iranian athletes died from COVID-19, including some who were in Wuhan, according to news reports not verified by Tehran.
The Pentagon’s reluctance to test athletes returning from Wuhan was not unique. No other nation’s military appears to have tested their participants in the 2019 World Military Games specifically for COVID-19. French doctors examined their athletes upon their return from the games as part of overall exams.
When asked why the athletes and support staff who had been in China were not screened as a precaution once the COVID-19 threat was known in January, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said at the end of an April 14 press conference: “I am not aware of what you are talking about.”...
Source: https://prospect.org/coronavirus/did-the-military-world-games-spread-covid-19/
