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== May 2019 ==

Revision as of 19:31, 15 June 2022

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

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

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