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April 2012

• Six miners in Yunnan hospitalised with symptoms very similar to a SARS-CoV-2 infection after catching coronavirus strain RaTG13/CoV4991. Three miners died. Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers collected tissue samples, and later visited the caves to acquire more material.

October 2014

• US government funding of gain-of-function research that makes viruses more dangerous, pending further risk assessment.

November 2015

• Research into a lab-made coronavirus related to SARS-CoV debate over whether the pandemic potential was worth the risk.

December 2017

• NIH funding of Gain-of-Function research.

March 2018

• EcoHealth Alliance submits proposal to DARPA to insert furin cleavage sites into SARS-CoV viruses to more efficiently bind to human cells

January 2019

• Japan by worst flu outbreak on record

March 2019

• SARS-CoV-2 genome detected in Spanish wastewater samples

May 2019

• China purchases of PCR tests
• SARS-CoV-2 antibodies [1] in UK

June 2019

• Australia by worst flu outbreak on record

July 2019

• EVALI '[2]' in Wisconsin with symptoms very similar to those of SARS-CoV-2 infections
• Unknown respiratory illness [3] in Virginia nursing home sickens dozens of elderly residents with fever and pneumonia

August 2019

• Analysis indirect indicators that virus was present in Wuhan
• Fort Detrick biolab is down for three months due to breaches of containment

September 2019

• SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Italian skin biopsies
• SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Italian blood samples
• Wuhan Institute of Virology takes it's pathogen database offline (containing 22,000 bat and rodent specimens)
• US down the 'Predict' research programme, which sought to identify animal viruses that might infect humans

October 2019

• Military World Games held in Wuhan, with 9,308 athletes from 109 countries competing in 329 events over the span of 9 days. Athletes present [4] getting sick, and Wuhan being a "ghost town".
• US Consulate General in Wuhan [5] of a severe respiratory illness circulating
• Maryland hospitals receive influx of patients suffering from respiratory illnesses. The majority tested negative for influenza.
• John Hopkins, WEF and the Gates Foundation host a simulation of a novel zoonotic coronavirus pandemic ("Event 201")

November 2019

• SARS-CoV-2 RNA in human wastewater in Santa Catarina, Brazil
• SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in France
• Unofficial Chinese "patient zero" back to November 17
• French thoracic scans [6] lung damage indicative of COVID infection
• US intelligence agencies allegedly [7] NATO and Israel to an emerging disease in Wuhan
• US intelligence report [8] three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalised

December 2019

• Symptoms start for the official "patient zero" in China. This person had no connection to Huanan Seafood Market
• Wuhan Municipal Health Commission [9] 27 cases of viral pneumonia on Dec 12th
• Professor Ian Lipkin [10] of coronavirus outbreak in China in mid-December
• SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Norwegian blood samples]
• SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in American blood samples
• SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Milan and Turin wastewater samples (Italy)
• SARS-CoV-2 RNA found in and lungs of cadaver from Milan
• Virus likely present in Iran
• French man (with no history of travel) hospitalised for pneumonia. Samples later test positive for SARS-CoV-2
• SARS-CoV-2 detected by commerical laboratory (Vision Medicals) in Guangzhou on Dec 26th
• Dr. Zhang Jixian of Hubei reports the new virus to Chinese health authorities on Dec 27th
• Wuhan Health Commission alerts Chinese CDC and WHO on Dec 31st