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December 30
- The first thing that happens is that we have a very strange phenomenon in China. An eye doctor spots a case of supposedly atypical pneumonia
- Claim That's a strange event to start with - there's lots of pneumonia all the time in China
January 5
- WHO: claims they've identified 44 cases (out of 8 million pop) of atypical pneumonia of unknown etiology
January 7
- Declared a new SARS-Like virus is the cause of these pneumonia cases
January 10 a)
- Firm manufacturing first PCR kits is already shipping them
- 11 days from first patient to shipping of kits b)
- First Gene sequence is published
January 12
- WHO accepts Drosten protocol
- "Gold standard"
January 19
- Corman-Drosten protocol submitted for review
- Peer reviewed and published in 27 hours
- Drosten is editor of this paper
January 21
- Chinese study about clinical symptoms of COVID -> NEJM
January 26
- Asymptomatic transmission -> NEJM
Summary:
- Clinical manifestation
- Viral cause
- Sequencing
- Gold standard test
- Peer reviewed publication sets primers for global use
- Clinical features are understood and known
All of these steps can be bullshit and pre-meditated