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Timeline: The early days of China's coronavirus outbreak and cover-up

  
Via:  Vic Eldred  •  4 years ago  •  10 comments

By:   Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian

Timeline: The early days of China's coronavirus outbreak and cover-up
 

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Axios has compiled a timeline of the earliest weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in China, highlighting when the cover-up started and ended — and showing how, during that time, the virus already started spreading around the world, including to the United States.

Why it matters:  A study published in March  indicated  that if Chinese authorities had acted three weeks earlier than they did, the number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95% and its geographic spread limited.

This timeline, compiled from information reported by the  Wall Street Journal , the  Washington Post , the South China Morning Post and other sources, shows that China's cover-up and the delay in serious measures to contain the virus lasted about three weeks.

Dec. 10:   Wei Guixian , one of the earliest known coronavirus patients, starts feeling ill.

Dec. 16:  Patient admitted to Wuhan Central Hospital with  infection in both lungs  but resistant to anti-flu drugs. Staff later learned he worked at a wildlife market connected to the outbreak.

Dec. 27:  Wuhan health officials  are told  that a new coronavirus is causing the illness.

Dec. 30:

  • Ai Fen, a top director at Wuhan Central Hospital,  posts information  on WeChat about the new virus. She was reprimanded for doing so and told not to spread information about it.
  • Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang also shares information on WeChat about the new SARS-like virus. He is called in for questioning shortly afterward.
  • Wuhan health commission  notifies  hospitals of a “pneumonia of unclear cause” and orders them to report any related information.

Dec. 31:

  • Wuhan health officials confirm 27 cases of illness and close a market they think is related to the virus' spread.
  • China  tells  the World Health Organization’s China office about the cases of an unknown illness.

Jan. 1:  Wuhan Public Security Bureau  brings in for questioning  eight doctors who had posted information about the illness on WeChat.

Jan. 2:  Chinese researchers  map  the new coronavirus' complete genetic information. This information is not made public until Jan. 9.

Jan. 7:  Xi Jinping becomes involved in the response.

Jan. 9:  China  announces  it has mapped the coronavirus genome.

Jan. 11–17:  Important prescheduled CCP meeting held in Wuhan. During that time, the Wuhan Health Commission  insists  there are no new cases.

Jan. 13:  First coronavirus case reported in Thailand, the first known case outside China.

Jan. 15:  The patient who becomes the first confirmed U.S. case leaves Wuhan and  arrives in the U.S. , carrying the coronavirus.

Jan. 18:

  • The Wuhan Health Commission announces four new cases.
  • Annual Wuhan Lunar New Year banquet.  Tens of thousands  of people gathered for a potluck.

Jan. 19:  Beijing sends epidemiologists to Wuhan.

Jan. 20:

  • The first case announced in South Korea.
  • Zhong Nanshan, a top Chinese doctor who is helping to coordinate the coronavirus response, announces the virus can be passed between people.

Jan. 21:

  • The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms the  first coronavirus case  in the United States.
  • CCP flagship newspaper People’s Daily  mentions the coronavirus epidemic  and Xi's actions to fight it for the first time.
  • China's top political commission in charge of law and order  warns  that “anyone who deliberately delays and hides the reporting of [virus] cases out of his or her own self-interest will be nailed on the pillar of shame for eternity."

Jan. 23:  Wuhan and three other cities are put on lockdown. Right around this time, approximately 5 million people leave the city without being screened for the illness.

Jan. 24–30:  China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions of people are in transit around the country as they visit relatives.

Jan. 24:  China  extends the lockdown  to cover 36 million people and starts to rapidly build a new hospital in Wuhan. From this point, very strict measures continue to be implemented around the country for the rest of the epidemic.

The bottom line:  China is now trying to create a narrative that it's an example of how to handle this crisis when in fact its early actions led to the virus spreading around the globe.

Go deeper:  China's coronavirus cover-up was among worst in history, congressman says


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Vic Eldred
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1  seeder  Vic Eldred    4 years ago

All of this was easily avoidable.

We must hold China accountable.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1  XXJefferson51  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    4 years ago

They pretty much decided that if they were going to be impacted by this that they were going to take everyone else down with them rather than absorb the economic damage alone.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  XXJefferson51 @1.1    4 years ago

Whatever they thought, they will have to be dealt with later. We need not depend on them for anything. Sen Tom Cotton has a Bill that would ban the US from buying prescription drug medication and/or ingredients from China. There is also a cost to all of this. This destroyed a prosperous economy. We owe money to China. I tthink we should deduct that money from them and instead pay off what we are spending on this costly battle we are now waging.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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2  Buzz of the Orient    4 years ago

The best thing to do is always to blame others.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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2.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @2    4 years ago

You are a good man, Buzz. I have no issue with the people of China. I think you and I can leave it at that.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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2.1.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1    4 years ago

Thank you.  Contrary to what some others believe, I have already often posted comments about this issue saying that the Chinese government made a terrible mistake by covering up the warnings, and millions of Chinese people are aware of it.  But there has been so much misinformation and blame being cast, like the opinion that the WHO is a puppet of the Chinese.  China is now starting to recover from this scourge, starting to get back to normal, and that will happen in America as well if your government handles it properly.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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3  seeder  Vic Eldred    4 years ago

Taiwan to donate 100,000 masks per week to US




The legitimate China!

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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3.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Vic Eldred @3    4 years ago

Jack Ma, a mainland Chinese billionaire, donated a million masks and a half million testing kits to America.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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3.1.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @3.1    4 years ago

God bless him and you too my friend.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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4  seeder  Vic Eldred    4 years ago

"Coronavirus outbreak exposes prior failures to end exotic wildlife sales in China, elsewhere. Great investigative piece by Christine Dolan illustrating how years of bureaucratic rhetoric followed by inaction led to this pandemic.".....Investigative Reporter John Solomon

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