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RN at Sharp (San Diego): Cared for likely early COVID case (onset late Dec 2019). Previously healthy 30s pt—ICU, unusual clotting, highly contagious, nearly died. No travel. Hospital reported unknown viral pneumonia early Jan.
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Did he say July? Sept is summer. I saw good evidence of covid being in the US in late Dec. The WHO accepts global Dec spread but pay them little mind and I think the field is biased and trying to make the wetmarket work. Check out that title. The bias is palpable
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Waiting for the truth: is reluctance in accepting an early origin hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 delaying our understanding of viral emergence?
Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, key questions about the emergence of its aetiological agent (SARS-CoV-2) remain a matter of considerable debate. Identifying when SARS-CoV-2 began s...
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February 13, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Did he say July? Sept is summer. I saw good evidence of covid being in the US in late Dec. The WHO accepts global Dec spread but pay them little mind and I think the field is biased and trying to make the wetmarket work. Check out that title. The bias is palpable
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They initially pushed the wetmarket. It was in their case definition at first. Scientists wouldn't do that unless political forces were guiding their hand.
Also Sept is summer. Also the initial spillover, lab or nature, would likely be less efficient at transmission and an extinct lineage.
Also Sept is summer. Also the initial spillover, lab or nature, would likely be less efficient at transmission and an extinct lineage.
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 AM
They initially pushed the wetmarket. It was in their case definition at first. Scientists wouldn't do that unless political forces were guiding their hand.
Also Sept is summer. Also the initial spillover, lab or nature, would likely be less efficient at transmission and an extinct lineage.
Also Sept is summer. Also the initial spillover, lab or nature, would likely be less efficient at transmission and an extinct lineage.
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Natasha Loder wrote about potential earlier cases including Lawrence Gostin's account that in mid-late Dec 2019 he heard from friends in China via WeChat and other communications. “Clearly, it was even then a widely circulating novel virus, reminiscent of SARS”.
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The November story
China's account of what happened in Wuhan is incomplete. So too are the accounts of foreign scientists and the American government
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December 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Natasha Loder wrote about potential earlier cases including Lawrence Gostin's account that in mid-late Dec 2019 he heard from friends in China via WeChat and other communications. “Clearly, it was even then a widely circulating novel virus, reminiscent of SARS”.
open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...
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"Michael Callahan, an infectious disease expert, was working with Chinese colleagues in a longstanding avian flu collaboration in November [2019] when they mentioned the appearance of a strange new virus." www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
December 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"Michael Callahan, an infectious disease expert, was working with Chinese colleagues in a longstanding avian flu collaboration in November [2019] when they mentioned the appearance of a strange new virus." www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
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I think it is unclear whether the virus was a zoonotic leap or a lab leak. We may never know. But our analysis (in Apollo’s Arrow) of cases throughout China in January 2020 strongly suggest that the virus had already left Wuhan by November. Here is the data we used: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China - Nature
Modelling of population flows in China enables the forecasting of the distribution of confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the identification of areas at high risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission at an early st...
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December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I think it is unclear whether the virus was a zoonotic leap or a lab leak. We may never know. But our analysis (in Apollo’s Arrow) of cases throughout China in January 2020 strongly suggest that the virus had already left Wuhan by November. Here is the data we used: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Zhang Zhan was convicted on charges of "provoking quarrels and causing trouble" in China. She was charged with the same accusation in December 2020 after publishing her reports from Wuhan about the first cases of coronavirus spread.
September 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Zhang Zhan was convicted on charges of "provoking quarrels and causing trouble" in China. She was charged with the same accusation in December 2020 after publishing her reports from Wuhan about the first cases of coronavirus spread.
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December cases in Wuhan tell us little about the virus’s origin. By then, cases had already appeared in the U.S., Italy, France, and elsewhere.
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Waiting for the truth: is reluctance in accepting an early origin hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 delaying our understanding of viral emergence?
Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, key questions about the emergence of its aetiological agent (SARS-CoV-2) remain a matter of considerable debate. Identifying when SARS-CoV-2 began s...
gh.bmj.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
December cases in Wuhan tell us little about the virus’s origin. By then, cases had already appeared in the U.S., Italy, France, and elsewhere.
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This is the intel the US is likely sitting on and hasn't confirmed that Jeffrey Sach confirmed when he was on the covid origins committee.
It's likely this virus mentioned.
It's likely this virus mentioned.
June 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This is the intel the US is likely sitting on and hasn't confirmed that Jeffrey Sach confirmed when he was on the covid origins committee.
It's likely this virus mentioned.
It's likely this virus mentioned.
Still learning bluesky. Retweeting this cause it's not linked in my replies...
Can't read that cause I think I got blocked when I pointed at the state of the evidence below. Shi was researching pangolin and coronaviruses at the time. It's in her slides at a Dec 2019 meeting.
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Natural spillover requires an animal host. Without that, we’re left with a virus that uniquely aligns with grant proposals—and showed up already unusually adapted, just like a serially passaged virus would.
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June 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Still learning bluesky. Retweeting this cause it's not linked in my replies...