New evidence from China suggests that Wuhan pneumonia (CCP virus) may have started spreading in the Wuhan area in November 2019, before the outbreak broke out at multiple points throughout the city in December.
New evidence from China suggests that Wuhan pneumonia (CCP virus) may have started spreading in the Wuhan area in November 2019 before the outbreak broke out at multiple points throughout the city in December, according to a new report in the U.S. media.
Although the Chinese Communist government did not provide the WHO (World health Organization) investigation team with raw, personalized data on the 174 cases diagnosed at the beginning of the Wuhan outbreak in December 2019, investigators can draw some conclusions from the information gathered during the expedition, the Wall Street Journal reported on 22 December.
WHO investigators said that in examining 13 viral gene sequences from December 2019, the Chinese Communist government found similar gene sequences for cases associated with the South China seafood market, but slightly different gene sequences for cases not associated with that market.Marion Koopmans, a Dutch virologist on the WHO panel, said the two sets of viruses were likely diagnosed in The divergence began between mid-November and early December 2019, which also suggests that infection may have occurred as early as September of that year.
This and some other evidence suggests that Wuhan pneumonia (CCP virus) may have spread to humans around the second half of November 2019, Koopmans said, but too few people were sick at that Time to get attention. It was not until December 2019 that the virus became more widespread, including both people associated with the South China Seafood Market and others who were not.
Dominic Dwyer, an Australian microbiologist on the WHO team, also said there are definitely more cases in December 2019 that people don’t know about or don’t recognize.
An earlier report in the Wall Street Journal cited WHO investigators as saying that about 90 people in central China were hospitalized with symptoms similar to Wuhan pneumonia (CCP virus) in the two months before the first confirmed case of Wuhan pneumonia (CCP virus) was identified in Wuhan in late 2019. About two-thirds of these patients have been tested for antibodies by Chinese authorities in the past two months. The tests showed no traces of infection with the virus. However, members of the WHO investigation team believe that any antibodies may have faded to undetectable levels during the delay.
The WTO is currently seeking to obtain blood samples from the months leading up to December 2019 to test for antibodies. They also hope to obtain raw data from the thousands of people who became ill during this time to try to determine the extent of transmission of Wuhan pneumonia (CCP virus) prior to the first officially confirmed case.
In fact, multiple studies have also previously shown that the Wuhan pneumonia (CCP virus) Epidemic was present well before December 2019. Researchers at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge University) who tested the mutation rate of this pathogen said last year that Wuhan pneumonia (CCP virus) could be first transmitted to humans sometime between late September and late November 2019. A study at the University of Arizona (University of Arizona) and the University of California San Diego (University of California San Diego) concluded that a new crown (CCP virus) infection may have occurred in Hubei Province as early as mid-October 2019.
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