"The coronavirus in Italy since September 2019" Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the prepandemic period in Italy First Published November 11, 2020 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0300891620974755?journalCode=tmja Smashed Paywall thanks to @Sci_Hub
https://twitter.com/BillyBostickson/status/1327994522417041408'Plausible' evidence that Covid may have been circulating in Italy in October 2019
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/plausible-evidence-covid-may-have-circulating-italy-october/1. Wuhan University deleted SARS2 data relating to early cases 2. @jbloom_lab recovered the data 3. Identified virus sequences that could precede the official "first" SARS2 sequence from China 4. Analysis suggests SARS2 was circulating in Wuhan before Huanan seafood market
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/14074553331156459562/ IIRC, there was a story via the british press ( @ianbirrell recall which journo?) of a WIV researcher whose spouse died in hospital during a relevant pre-pandemic time. The day China’s origin moratorium begins, the source dials the british journalist to retract the case report.
https://twitter.com/BlockedVirology/status/1406134457417932808Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in All of Us Research Program Participants, January 2-March 18, 2020 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab519/6294073Can journalists please reach out to Ron Fouchier and @MarionKoopmans to understand what they had heard about an outbreak in Wuhan in the *first week* of December 2019? This seems to be the earliest knowledge of the outbreak outside of China, right?
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1408839688312561672China, scientists dismiss Harvard study suggesting COVID-19 was spreading in Wuhan in August | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-china-research/china-scientists-dismiss-harvard-study-suggesting-covid-19-was-spreading-in-wuhan-in-august-idUKKBN23G0OEChinese Defector Tried to Warn Trump About Covid Five Months Before The Pandemic | Al Bawaba
https://www.albawaba.com/news/chinese-defector-tried-warn-trump-about-covid-five-months-pandemic-1446898Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 sewage sample, Spanish study shows - Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-science-idUSKBN23X2HQCoronavirus: Fact-checking claims it might have started in August 2019 - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53005768Coronavirus: Satellite traffic images may suggest virus hit Wuhan earlier - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52975934Coronavirus: pathogen could have been spreading in humans for decades, study says | South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3077442/coronavirus-pathogen-could-have-been-spreading-humans-decadesEarly COVID-19 Cases in Southern California Linked to NY
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/early-covid-19-cases-in-southern-california-linked-to-new-york/Evidence of early circulation of SARS-CoV-2 in France: findings from the population-based “CONSTANCES” cohort | SpringerLink
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-020-00716-2First British victim, 25, describes coronavirus | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8075633/First-British-victim-25-describes-coronavirus.htmlFirst Chinese coronavirus cases may have been infected in October 2019, says new research | South China Morning Post
https://scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3126499/first-chinese-covid-19-cases-may-have-been-infected-october-2019Hong Kong takes emergency measures as mystery ‘pneumonia’ infects dozens in China’s Wuhan city | South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3044050/mystery-illness-hits-chinas-wuhan-city-nearly-30-hospitalisedHow scientists at Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9507749/How-scientists-Wuhan-lab-helped-Chinese-army-secret-project-animal-viruses.htmlI just did. Here is Prof Fouchier's response: 'I am sorry about this confusion. It must have been late December, not early. My mistake. I seem to remember discussing with Prof. Koopmans some unofficial news reports in China about illness associated with a foodmarket in Wuhan....
https://twitter.com/ianbirrell/status/1410262970672762883Image of document
https://twitter.com/JollyKJo/status/1404854976996777987/photo/1Inside China & US plans to release Covid particles 18 months before pandemic | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/wuhan-scientists-planned-to-release-coronavirus-particles-into-bats-18-months-before-outbreak/news-story/56778257329126065fcfba846fefe94eMore evidence suggests COVID-19 was in US by Christmas 2019
https://apnews.com/article/more-evidence-covid-in-US-by-Christmas-2019-11346afc5e18eee81ebcf35d9e6caee2/NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infections in U.S. | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-study-offers-new-evidence-early-sars-cov-2-infections-usOpinion | Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.html1979-04 Sverdlovsk anthrax leak2020-02 Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2)DRASTIC and the lab-leak theory of SARS-CoV-2Dates of the earliest cases of Covid-19 infectionLaboratory accidentsPeter Daszak and the origin of SARS-CoV-2RaTG13 and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Ralph Baric and the origin of SARS-CoV-2SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Shi Zhengli and the origin of SARS-CoV-2The Chinese government and the origin of SARS-CoV-2The question of whether the Wuhan Institute of Virology kept live bats before the Covid-19 outbreak
Ron Fouchier on record saying he knew of the Wuhan outbreak in the first week of December (at 1:50) https://youtu.be/5DeUBLeMnjY h/t @Bianca50406170
https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1405553117844819973SARS-CoV-2 detected in waste waters in Barcelona on March 12, 2019 - Universitat de Barcelona
https://www.ub.edu/web/ub/en/menu_eines/noticies/2020/06/042.htmlScientists Report Earliest Known Coronavirus Cases in Five US States - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/health/coronavirus-usa-cases.htmlSentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater anticipates the occurrence of COVID-19 cases | medRxiv
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v1Serologic Testing of US Blood Donations to Identify Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)–Reactive Antibodies: December 2019–January 2020 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1004/6012472They knew...1:58
https://twitter.com/BillyBostickson/status/1405272593389686785This interview with an African student in Wuhan locked down mentioning cases of pneumonia in September:
https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1409277991201427462This is a thread to collect all early knowledge western scientists had of the outbreak in Wuhan. I want to try to understand any pattern of information spread that can be extracted, if there's something there.
https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1409004213149978625Dates of the earliest cases of Covid-19 infectionGeorge Gao and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Ian Lipkin and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Jeremy Farrar and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Peter Daszak and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Robert Redfield and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Ron Fouchier and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Scientists and researchers and the origin of SARS-CoV-2The media and the origin of SARS-CoV-2
Timing the SARS-CoV-2 Index Case in Hubei Province | bioRxiv
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.20.392126v1.fullTwo more Canadian soldiers have come out to say they believe they contracted covid-19 in Wuhan at the Military World Games in OCTOBER, 2019: https://financialpost.com/diane-francis/diane-francis-canadian-forces-have-right-to-know-if-they-got-covid-at-the-2019-military-world-games-in-wuhan @dianefrancis1 @financialpost
https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1408784790929776640US State Department expert David Asher says lab leak is only logical explanation of Covid source | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9410163/US-State-Department-expert-David-Asher-says-lab-leak-logical-explanation-Covid-source.htmlVirus confirmed, March 2019 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyhMoWDSZ7YVirus was first isolated on Dec 24-27, and virus genome sequence was first determined on Dec 27. Virus genome sequence was shared with WHO on Jan 12.
https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1251855988677914627WHO Wuhan mission finds possible signs of wider original outbreak in 2019 - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/14/health/who-mission-china-intl/index.htmlWHO team scientist: Wuhan lab workers fell sick in 2019
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/who-team-scientist-wuhan-lab-workers-fell-sick-in-2019-104497733806We have three more concordant clues, that Wuhan authorities may have detected the epidemic by early December:. 1) By Aug 2019, China had established a nationwide surveillance system to collect and report unexplained pneumonia cases
https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1405553121548402689When Was the First U.S. Covid Death? CDC Investigates 4 Early Cases - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/health/first-covid-deaths.htmlif there was foreknowledge of severe flu in Oct/Nov 2019 based on comparison between 2018 & 2019 influenza diagnosis & treatment plans published by NHC, revealed by @interne41914499 https://graph.org/2019-Influenza-Plan-06-27 3 people would have known about it: Ma Xiaowei, Wang Hensheng, George Gao
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