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How much do you really know about COVID-19? Is it just what you read in the headlines? Is it what you hear in the news?

Ask yourself these questions:

  • Do you know when COVID-19 first started and where?
  • What were the first signs of a bigger medical issue?
  • How did the start of COVID-19 compare to SARS and MERS?
  • When did science determine they had a new coronavirus?
  • When did science determine the genome sequence of this new coronavirus?
  • How does the timing of sciences discovery compare to the speed at which they did when they discovered SARS and MERS?
  • Why is COVID-19 named SARS-COV-2? Why not MERS-COV-2? Should it be named differently?
  • Who are the names of people that can be researched with regards to COVID-19?

All the research that is provided is gathered via the World Health Organization (WHO) website, other large health organizations, writings by medical professionals, and some comparison to larger news organizations. I will explain how I gathered this information so you can conduct the same steps that I did.

First, I am not a doctor and I am not in medical school. I am someone that conducted research and felt that it was necessary to publish what I found. It is up to you the reader to digest this, compare it to what you have read or heard, and decide for yourself “WHAT IS TRUE?”.

Research Methods:

Only used Google as my internet search engine
Used 2 methods when using Google:
1. I used Google’s Advanced Search: https://www.google.com/advanced_search
2. Secondly I used Google’s standard search, and created individual searches: for example in the Google Search Bar I typed: “pneumonia site:who.int”
3. After I had the results listed I used Google’s Tools to set a custom date range.
See image below:

Now that I have explained how I conducted my research I would like to explain the research I discovered. Let’s start with the Listings of WHO’s response to COVID-19. In addition lets focus on the dates between December 31, 2019 and January 14, 2020.

Timeline

I found that on June 29, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) published Listings of WHO’s response to COVID-19. This is a timeline of events on the WHO’s response. As of this writing it was last updated on December 28, 2020. “Last updated 28 December 2020 to restore some dates that had been inadvertently deleted from this text version of the timeline. They remained in the interactive timeline throughout.” Did you notice the words “inadvertently deleted”? Just to keep things clear per Oxford Languages inadvertently means: without intention; accidentally.

To find out what was inadvertently deleted from the text version of the timeline, I need to compare some documentation. I used the publication on December 28, 2020 as my constant since it is the one with the reference that the WHO had to restore some dates. Using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org I searched for the link of the published article. The farthest back that the WayBack Machine referenced was October 15, 2020 for this link. I didn’t jump to that date, I started closer to the constant date. I noticed the change was made between November 29 and December 1, 2020. Below is the dates that were missing from the document. How do you inadvertently delete this data from a publication? I will try and see if there is any relevance to the dates when removed and the data removed.

5 January 2020

WHO shared detailed information about a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause through the IHR (2005) Event Information System, which is accessible to all Member States. The event notice provided information on the cases and advised Member States to take precautions to reduce the risk of acute respiratory infections.

WHO issued its first Disease Outbreak News report. This is a public, web-based platform for the publication of technical information addressed to the scientific and public health communities, as well as global media. The report contained information about the number of cases and their clinical status; details about the Wuhan national authority’s response measures; and WHO’s risk assessment and advice on public health measures. It advised that “WHO’s recommendations on public health measures and surveillance of influenza and severe acute respiratory infections still apply”.

9 January 2020

WHO reported that Chinese authorities have determined that the outbreak is caused by a novel coronavirus.

WHO convened the first of many teleconferences with global expert networks, beginning with the Clinical Network.

With that brief example of a timeline we will address the first 2 questions at the beginning of this writing.

  1. Do you know when COVID-19 first started and where?
  2. What were the first signs of a bigger medical issue?
  • December 31, 2019
    • In China, the WHO’s Country Office picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of ‘viral pneumonia’ in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China.
      • Let’s dig into this a little deeper for more detail.
        • On January 5, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) published Pneumonia of unknown cause – China (who.int). Below is from the article:
          • “On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. As of 3 January 2020, a total of 44 patients with pneumonia of unknown etiology have been reported to WHO by the national authorities in China. Of the 44 cases reported, 11 are severely ill, while the remaining 33 patients are in stable condition. According to media reports, the concerned market in Wuhan was closed on 1 January 2020 for environmental sanitation and disinfection.”
          • The public health response from China national authorities:
            • One hundred and twenty-one close contacts have been identified and are under medical observation
            • The follow-up of close contacts is ongoing
            • Pathogen identification and the tracing of the cause are underway
            • Wuhan Municipal Health Commission carried out active case finding, and retrospective investigations have been completed
            • Environmental sanitation and further hygiene investigations are under way
          • Research Project Thought: The above response was being conducted even though there was limited information to determine the overall risk, there was no deaths, pneumonia was common in the winter season. The China National Authority was already conducting close contact monitoring of 121 people with medical observation. With how easy SARS-CoV-2 spreads and if it did start in the Wuhan market, which is a public market and free standing, how did the China National Authority know who to monitor? Wuhan has 11 million people. If it can take up to 14 days before SARS-CoV-2 symptoms show, the number of people that had to come into that market had to a staggering.
          • Research Project Thought: One day after the WHO being informed Wuhan closes the concerned market for disinfection. Remember at the of time of closing or better yet, the time when authorities decided to close it, they did not know if it is viral, bacterial, or fungal, or if there was a potential serious threat. So why did the authorities do all of this so quickly?
          • Research Project Thought: Upon further searching on Google, we discovered this article on ABC News. In this article ABC News references that on 27 December 2019 a Chinese Lab assembles a near-complete sequence of the virus. Showing that it was similar to the coronavirus that caused the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003. But that the lab alerted health authorities and the information was kept under wraps. Why? ABC News does not cite any information in this article so we can not determine where they learned of this information. In addition they reference that on “Dec. 30: Doctors begin warning about the disease independently on social media – most prominently Dr. Li Wenliang”. Sadly Dr. Li Wenliang passed away on 6 February 2020 from the virus.
        • It was stated in the Listings of WHO’s response to COVID-19 that the WHO’s Country Office picked up a media statement and that the cases were of ‘viral pneumonia’. But in the release on January 5, 2020 before the Listings was every created there is no mention of a media report. It states that the WHO’s Country Office in China was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology.
          • Why the difference between the 2 writings by the WHO with the reference to pneumonia. From my research you can get pneumonia via bacteria infection, viral infection, and fungal. If on January 5, 2020 the WHO references pneumonia of unknown etiology why would the WHO change their statement to the case were of ‘viral pneumonia’? Per Oxford Languages the word etiology means: the cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of a disease or condition. With the knowing of the meaning of etiology, and the use of the word unknown, how did the WHO it was viral pneumonia and not bacterial pneumonia?
  • January 9, 2020
    • The World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement WHO Statement regarding cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. This is 4 days after the WHO’s initial publication referenced above. On December 31, 2019 it was an unknown etiology. Below is the first paragraph from this released statement.
      • Chinese authorities have made a preliminary determination of a novel (or new) coronavirus, identified in a hospitalized person with pneumonia in Wuhan. Chinese investigators conducted gene sequencing of the virus, using an isolate from one positive patient sample. Preliminary identification of a novel virus in a short period of time is a notable achievement and demonstrates China’s increased capacity to manage new outbreaks.
      • Notice the reference to a few items in this first paragraph:
        • Conducted gene sequencing of the virus, using an isolate from one positive patient sample.
          • How would they know they have a positive patient, because at this point there was no known test to identify positivity. In addition at the time it was stated this was still a pneumonia case with unknown etiology.
        • Preliminary identification of a novel virus in a short period of time is a notable achievement and demonstrates China’s increased capacity to manage new outbreaks.
          • In 10 days since the WHO was informed of the pneumonia cases, China has already identified a novel coronavirus and have conducted gene sequencing of it. The date that the novel coronavirus was originally identified was January 7, 2020 was name temporarily named 2019-nCoV
  • January 10, 2020
    • GISAID states “China shares first genome sequences of the newly emerging coronavirus”
  • January 11, 2020
    • Google search references this date for WHO PCR protocol_nCoV_IP200227_Final, reason I am pointing this out is this would be one day after the genome sequence was released there was a RT-PCR test created for it, and they reference SARS-CoV-2 in the document. When downloading the document and looking at the properties of it, the file looks to be created on February 27, 2020.
  • January 13, 2020
    • Diagnostic detection of Wuhan coronavirus 2019 by real-time RT-PCR test was published. Protocol 13 Jan (who.int)
    • This is 3 days after the genome sequence was shared by China. In addition this paper gives credit to the release of another genome sequence, not just one supplied by China to GISAID.

With the above information lets try to answer questions of: Do you know when COVID-19 first started and where? What were the first signs of a bigger medical issue? When did science determine the genome sequence of this new coronavirus?

SAR-CoV-2 first started in December 2019. With the WHO being informed on December 31, 2019 and the WHO says as of April 30, 2020 that the average days before symptoms appears is around 5-6 days but up to 14 days, I would have to say that the 44 cases of pneumonia in Wuhan China started in the second to third week of December. This gives it time for the symptoms to mature into pneumonia. ***UPDATE – 07/04/2021 – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2012-7 – In an article published on February 3, 2020, it is stated that the epidemic started on December 12, 2019. This date matches exactly to the calculation as it falls in the 2nd week of December of 2019. In this article it is said that COVID-19 matches 79.6% to SARS-CoV, but that it matches 96% to another bat coronavirus. Then why name COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 and why speculate that it came from pangolins? Early on in this article the two authors (one of them is Shi Zhengli – top virologist at Wuhan Institute of Virology) acknowledge that COVID-19 started from a local seafood market. Why is this theory of the local seafood market being pushed so early into the discovery of this virus? Also why were 7 of the patients (6 of them were sellers or deliverymen from the seafood market) sent from the Wuhan Jin Yin-Tan Hospital to the laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for diagnosis of the causative pathogen? In their diagnosis of these patients they (Shi Zhengli and others) found 5 additional coronaviruses WIV02, WIV04, WIV05, WIV06, WIV07 and sent the genome sequences to GISAID. They were 99.9 identical to each other. That is why they have different names. In figure 1 of the article they have these 5 Beta coronaviruses listed. Better where is WIV03? Why is it skipped? In figure 2 you will notice that WIV03 is now listed. ***

I would have to guess that the first signs of a bigger medical issue were on January 5,2020 when the WHO said that China was already conducting medical observation of one hundred and twenty-one close contacts and that they had already start disinfection of places.

The genome sequence of nCoV-2019 was completed and shared with GISAID on January 10, 2020, 11 days after the WHO was informed. In 7 days after the WHO was informed a novel coronavirus was identified, and 4 days later the genome sequence was completed and shared with GISAID. Is the speed to identification and genome sequencing normal, is it fast, or is it slow. Per the WHO’s statement on January 9, 2020 “Preliminary identification of a novel virus in a short period of time is a notable achievement and demonstrates China’s increased capacity to manage new outbreaks” it seems as thought it was fast and potentially extremely fast. But to be sure we need to compare it to another outbreak. The SARS outbreak of 2003 and the MERS outbreak of 2012 will be used as comparisons.

The first introduction to SARS (Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome) in 2003 was on February 23, 2003 when WHO officer Carlo Urbani, MD was in Hanoi, Veitnam examining an American businessman with an unknown form of pneumonia. Urbani called it SARS on March 10, 2003, but on March 24, 2003 the CDC presented its first evidence of a new strain of virus called the coronavirus. This would be 29 days since the WHO became aware of a pneumonia related issue.

MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) was first detected in March 2012. On September 20, 2012 a Saudi Arabian physician isolated a novel coronavirus from a patient with pneumonia. On May 15, 2013 the WHO Regional Office in Europe released a statement identifying the novel coronavirus MERS. From first detection to isolation it took 6 months to identify the novel coronavirus. This is significantly longer than for SARS and 9 years later. There had to be medical advances to help speed up the process or at least keep the identification to 1 month as it was for SARS.

With the information about let’s try and answer one of the questions at the beginning. How does the timing of sciences discovery compare to the speed at which they did when they discovered SARS and MERS? With the 2 use cases (SARS and MERS) we can see that the identification of SARS-CoV-2 was significantly faster, 76% faster if my math is right.

Now that we have answered those 3 questions, I want to discuss January 30, 2020. This would be 1 month since the WHO was informed of the 44 pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The following data was reported on January 30, 2020. 20200130-sitrep-10-ncov.pdf (who.int)

  • 7,736 cases confirmed in China
  • 82 confirmed cases outside of China
  • 18 countries with confirmed cases

Why do I bring up those numbers? Let’s add those numbers to the below information.

  • Started in Wuhan
  • Wuhan has 19 million people
  • The Hubei province has 58 million
  • Wuhan is near the same size as the greater area of New York City (population 8.5 million)
  • SARS-CoV-2 cases as of June 26, 2020 in the greater area of New York City is 1.568 million

How does a city 1/3 the population of Wuhan has 1.568 million SARS-CoV-2 cases in all of China has less than 100K? If this virus is capable of spreading as fast as it does, and the country of India has over 30 million cases when their population is nearly the same as China, how does China have less than 100K cases? Using Google Earth I calculated the distance between the Wuhan Institute for Virology and the Wuhan South China Seafood Wholesale Market or Huanan Seafood Market, a straight line puts it at 12 kilometers or 7.46 miles

If virus recombination is what the scientific community is point towards in this article on nature.com (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-78703-6), how did the recombination happen at the RBD with such a high similarity to the pangolin MP789 coronavirus? Wouldn’t recombination be similar to how our parents create us where we have an almost 50% split in our DNA between the parents? Or is it different with viruses?

Key Individuals with regards to SARS-COV-2

  • Shi Zhengli – Top virologist at Wuhan Institute of Virology
  • Peter Daszak – President of EcoHealth Alliance, British Zoologist and expert in zoonosis
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci –

Keywords that I used to search Google with are:

  • pneumonia
  • Covid-19
  • SARS
  • MERS
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Wuhan
  • RaTG13
  • RmYN02
  • Pangolin MP789

Vaccines – Currently in Use

Therapeutics – Currently in Use

So what do we believe when it comes to COVID-19? If you are interested about COVID-19 take the time to research and read about it. The more you understand the better you are informed and will be able to see who is telling the truth and who is trying to hide something or who is misrepresenting something to paint a picture the story teller (reporter, journalist, etc) is wanting you to see and not what you should see. Find the TRUTH for yourself. Not all news is true to its word, that is where fake news got its name.

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