COVID-19 Pandemic
2020

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2020
January 1
January 1

Wuhan Seafood Market closed for renovation

The South China [Huanan] Seafood Wholesale Market was reported to have been closed for renovation [English], yet the Lancet paper states the market was shut down by the local health authorities!

China CDC report “22% of patients had direct exposure to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market before illness onset” of “viral pneumonia of unknown etiology (VPUE)”.   Lancet study suggest 66% of initial 41 cases had direct exposure to market. [1]

January 1

Eight Chinese Doctors tried to warn of SARS-like virus

8 Chinese people [Doctors] were dealt with in accordance with the CCP law for disseminating false information about “Wuhan Viral Pneumonia” on the Internet. [translation] [4, 5]

Reported BBC 3/1/20

Dr Li Wenliang, who died on Feb 7, 2020, was trying to warn about the SARS-like virus.[1, 2, 3]

By 28 January, 2020 the Supreme People’s Court of China vindicated all doctors of wrong doing.

January 2

Wuhan: 27 of 41 hospital patients had connection to seafood market

By Jan 2, 2020, 41 admitted hospital patients had been identified as having laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection in China.  Of these there were 30 men, 11 women all with a median age of 49 years.  Of the 41 patients,  27 had been exposed to Huanan seafood market. [1]

January 3

China first alerted WHO of new viral pneumonia

On January 3, 2020, according to a China White Paper, the Wuhan City Health Commission (WCHC) issued an Information Circular on a Viral Pneumonia of Unknown Cause, reporting a total of 44 cases.  They first became aware on December 27, 2019.

Under the direction of the National Health Commission (NHC), China CDC and three other institutions carried out parallel laboratory testing of the samples to identify the pathogen. The NHC and the Health Commission of Hubei Province jointly formulated nine documents, including Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol for Viral Pneumonia of Unknown Cause (for Trial Implementation).

From January 3rd onward, China began to update the WHO on a regular basis on the development of the disease.

On January 5, 2020 the WHO made the official announced the disease outbreak of “Pneumonia of unknown cause” in China. [1, 2]

January 4

WHO activates their Incident Management System

As part of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Emergency Response Framework [2nd Ed 2017] an Incident Management System (IMS) was activated across the three levels of WHO (country office, regional office and headquarters) within 24 hrs “of grading the emergency.”

China first notified the WHO on January 3, 2020 of a new viral pneumonia, one week after they first became aware.

“On 5 January 2020, WHO shared detailed information and risk analyses about the cluster of cases with all Member States through the International Health Regulations Event Information Site (EIS), and published a public Disease Outbreak News alert.” [1, 2]

[Time Zones may account for this appearing to be greater than 24 hrs.]

January 4

China’s CDC director telephones US CDC director

On January 4, 2020 the Director of China’s CDC [George Gao Fu] held a telephone conversation with the director of the United States CDC [Robert Redfield] according to, and specifically stated in China’s June 2020 white paper. [1, 2]

George Gao Fu has been a board member of the GPMB with Dr Anthony Fauci since it’s formation, and played part in the coronavirus simulation, Event 201 in October 2019.

January 4

CIA officer in Wuhan contacted Dr Robert Malone

According to Dr Robert Malone a CIA officer [Michael Callahan [1]] , who was in Wuhan at the time called him on January 4, 2020 and said:

“Robert, you’ve got to get your team spun up because we’ve got a problem with this virus”

From this point Dr Malone made a “Threat Assessment” through following the epidemiological data and “decided to focus on repurposed drugs.” [ref @22:20 min]

Dr. Callahan escaped Wuhan surreptitiously by boat immediately prior to the lockdown of the region on 23 January 2020.” [2]

January 5

WHO notifies Member States of an unknown pneumonia

On January 5, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) made the official announcement of a disease outbreak of “Pneumonia of unknown cause” in China.  Which alterted member states [1, 2, 3]

In a WHO tweet on January 4, 2020 they made an early announcment, then their website on January 5, 2020 they stated:

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 causal agent has not yet been identified or confirmed. On 1 January 2020, WHO requested further information from national authorities to assess the risk….The clinical signs and symptoms are mainly fever, with a few patients having difficulty in breathing, and chest radiographs showing invasive lesions of both lungs. 

According to the authorities, some patients were operating dealers or vendors in the Huanan Seafood market. Based on the preliminary information from the Chinese investigation team, no evidence of significant human-to-human transmission and no health care worker infections have been reported.

Further details were announced on Jan 11, 2020.

China had been investigating since December 27, 2019 when they first became aware of the unknown pneumonia.

By January 14, 2022 the WHO reported “Thailand (ex-China)” had received the first “imported case” in a 61-year-old Chinese woman who was living in Wuhan City.

January 7

Novel coronavirus identified by Chinese authorities

The Chinese authorities identified a “new type of coronavirus, which was isolated on January 7, 2020, and officially determied it to be the causal agent of the viral pneumonia outbreak. In their Situation Report 1 the WHO stated the genome was released to the public on January 12, 2020.

Reported by China on January 3, 2020 under the direction of the National Health Commission (NHC), China CDC and three other institutions [unnamed] they began parallel laboratory testing of the samples in order to identify the pathogen. [1]

China’s CDC report that on “January 3, 2020, the sequence of novel β-genus coronaviruses (2019-nCoV) was determined from specimens collected from patients in Wuhan by scientists of the National Institute of Viral Disease Control and Prevention (IVDC), and three distinct strains have been established.”

On January 7, 2020, this novel coronavirus was confirmed to be the pathogenic cause of this viral pneumonia of unknown etiology (VPUE) cluster, and the disease has been designated novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia (NCIP).

Chinese CDC reports >>

January 9

WHO: China identifies a novel coronavirus as cause of pneumonia cluster

On January 9, 2020 the WHO announced “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.” [1]

Initial information about the cases of pneumonia include the occupation, location and symptom profile of the people affected – pointed to a coronavirus (CoV) as a possible pathogen causing this cluster.

“WHO does not recommend any specific measures for travellers. WHO advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the information currently available.”

January 10

Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) genome sequence is made public

The sequence of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was posted to a public web server on January 10, 2020 [6]

Following China’s Jan 7, 2020 announcement a “viral genome sequence was released for immediate public health support via the community online resource virological.org on 10 January (Wuhan-Hu-1, GenBank accession number MN908947), followed by four other genomes deposited on 12 January in the viral sequence database curated by the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID)”, according to Drosten et al. [4]

According to WHO  on 12 January 2020, “China shared the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus for countries to use in developing specific diagnostic kits.”

The genetic sequence of 2019nCoV (now SARS-CoV-2), a new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in Wuhan, China (collection date 26/12/2019), was published on GISAID for countries to use in developing specific diagnostic kits. [3]

The virus is closely related genetically to SARS-CoV (82%) and to SARS-related bat and civet coronaviruses within the family Betacoronavirus, subgenus Sarbecovirus. [1, 2]  The epidemiology of this subgenus is largely unknown, especially outside China.

China’s CDC report that on “January 3, 2020, the sequence of novel β-genus coronaviruses (2019-nCoV) was determined from specimens collected from patients in Wuhan by scientists of the National Institute of Viral Disease Control and Prevention (IVDC), and three distinct strains have been established.”

The genome sequence was published by China’s CDC. [5The new Betacoronavirus genome sequence was deposited in GISAID (www.gisaid.org) under the accession numbers:

  • EPI_ISL_402119
  • EPI_ISL_402020 
  • EPI_ISL_402121
January 10

BioNTech initiates vaccine mRNA code

Following the SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequence made public by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on January 10, 2020, BioNTech initiated the development of it’s COVID-19 vaccine mRNA sequence of which would become known as “BNT162b2”.

January 10

China officials report outbreak is “under control” and mostly “mild condition”

On January 10, 2020, according to a Five Eye’s report, Wang Guangfa, a People’s Republic of China officials says the outbreak is “under control” and mostly a “mild condition”.

January 11

WHO was notified of seafood market link

On 11 and 12 January 2020, the WHO stated in their Situation Report 1 that they “received further detailed information from the National Health Commission China that the outbreak is associated with exposures in one seafood market in Wuhan City”

“22% of patients had direct exposure to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market before illness onset”

“Despite extensive searching, no animal from the market has thus far been identified as a possible source of infection.”

January 11

China reports first pneumonia death from “new type of coronavirus”

On January 11, 2020 China reports their first death of a “61-year-old man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan”.  On the same day Beijing announced that 41 people have been diagnosed with pathogen linked to a new type of coronavirus.  [1, 2]

January 12

WHO release clinical treatment guidelines

WHO clinical treatment guidelines for novel CoV based on MERS infection – first released, then updated on 28th January 2020.

Advanced stage illness includes pneumonia, ARDS & sepsis.

High-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) or non-invasive ventilation (NIV) should only be used in selected patient.

According to WHO, based on SARS and MERS data, corticosteroids should not be routinely given systemically.

Yet, early into the pandemic US frontline doctors had great success using early corticosteroid treatment such as Budesonide, contrary to WHO’s blanket recommendation not to use it.

The Lancet study states “no antiviral treatment for coronavirus infection has been proven to be effective.”  Yet, early on in pandemic doctors discover through past literature that  Zinc + HCQ demonstrates to be an effective anti-viral.

January 12

The China lab who shared the genomic sequence data is closed by authorities

On January 12, 2020, Professor Zhang Yongzhen’s lab in Shanghai is closed by authorities for “rectification”, one day after it shares genomic sequence data with the world for the first time, a Five Eyes intelligence report exposes.

January 12

Moderna design mRNA vaccine sequence in one hour

Melissa J. Moore PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Moderna recaps in a 2022 TED Talk that as soon as Chinese novel-CoV virus gene sequence was made public on January 10, 2020, they “got immediately to work”. [1, 2]

Within 2 days, following discussions with their National Institutes of Health (NIH) partners, they agreed on “which form of spike protein they’d put in their vaccines”.  So on January 12, 2020 it “took Moderna’s mRNA design team just one hour to design” the modified mRNA vaccine sequence which was immediately put onto their manufacturing equipment and used in their phase 1 trials.

Remember, Moderna had never brought a product to market and the FDA considered mRNA as a “gene therapy“, yet by 2022 Moore refered to the use of their technology as a “vaccine” when used in a few trial patients who already had cancer (not as a preventative!).

“By January of 2020, we had already manufactured, quality controlled and delivered to several dozen patients personalised cancervaccines. So we had the know-how and the capacity to manufacture vaccines quickly.”

“There is a coming Tsunami of mRNA medicine” [called vaccines?]

January 13

WHO releases PCR “diagnostic” protocol – The catalyst for pandemic “cases”

On January 13, 2020 the “WHO publishes the protocol for RT-PCR assay designed by a WHO partner laboratory to diagnose the novel coronavirus”. [ updated V2] Target PCR gene primers and probes from 7 world labs, reinforcing up to 45 cycles of amplification.

WHO “immediately began working with companies to produce high-quality PCR kits that were shipped to laboratories worldwide in early February 2020” [1]

This PCR test protocol was developed by Dr Drosten under “sever time constraints” and was in turn adopted by WHO without any clinical testing to then became the foundation for “diagnosing” COVID-19, and 17 days later generated the “case data” that justified declaring a PHEIC. [2]

PCR is a laboratory technique, also referred to as a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT).

The WHO protocol references Christian Dorsten et al, of which their paper was published 10 days later on 23 Jan, after less than 24 hours in peer review, in a journal that Drosten is an editorial member!

By Nov 2020, this paper had been externally peer review finding 10 major scientific flaws, and major conflicts of interest. [3]

WHO released Diagnostic Testing for SARS-CoV-2 – 17 Jan, 19 Mar, 11 Sept 2020.  It wasn’t until the September edition before “clinical” criteria became part of the diagnosis on top of PCR.

Drosten also raced to design the diagnostic test protocol for 2003 SARS and 2009 H1N1 swine flu. [CV]

PCR tests have been the driver of “diagnosing” an “infected case” and to justify the “quarantining” of healthy people referred to as “asymptomatic carriers”.

PCR test with up to 40 cycles of amplification is recommended by CDC and AU health to “avoid false positives”, Dorsten’s paper references 45 cycles, yet in 2014 he stated PCR is not suitable for mass testing and turns healthy people into “statistically ill”.

Kary Mullis, PCR inventer, his patent used 20 cycles as each cycle doubles the initial sample.

WHO pushes “test, test, test” even though they know the PCR tests are meaningless as a diagnostic tool to determine an alleged infection of SARS-CoV-2.

WHO knows “the cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load.”  This means when virus levels are low a high Ct is required to detect it (>35) and vice versa.

By Jan 2020 WHO reported the CDC had “developed a rRT-PCR test that can diagnose 2019-nCoV.” CDC rushed to produce the test kit and applied for FDA EUA, for a product that states “this test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.” [4]

“Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV were available for CDC use at the time the test was developed…for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA… characterized stocks [computer generated sequences were used] of in vitro transcribed full length RNA”. [2020, 2021]

Watch >>

January 13

Moderna vaccine sequence finalised

President Trump is said to have partnered with Moderna-NIH to begin producing a COVID-19 vaccine, piggybacking on November 2015 collaborations. [1, 2]

On March 2, 2020, Moderna’s CEO Stéphane Bance, told President Trump that “we’re able to move very, very fast from a few phone calls to getting a vaccine made, ready for the clinic” because of existing MERS working relationship already with DARPA and NIH.  He said “in only 42 days from the sequence of the virus, [we sent] our vaccine to Dr. Fauci’s team at the NIH“. [5]

Using this brand new vaccine platform and in the fastest time ever, on January 13, 2020, the NIAID spike protein design team in collaboration with Moderna “finalized the sequence for the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine” and “mobilized toward clinical manufacture” and “the first clinical batch was completed on February 7, 2020.”  “Mutations were made to the spike-encoding gene so that the protein it encodes stays in a stable, “prefusion” form.”  [3]

On 24th February, 2020, Moderna ship their “first batch of [mRNA-1273] its candidate mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 for phase 1 study”

Moderna (formally called ModeRNA) who has never before brought a product to market, they attribute their technology to an operating system. [4]

Later a $1.5 billion deal was struck with Moderna under Operation Warp Speed.  Moderna received $483 million taxpayer funding from US government for the development.  On Feb 4, 2021 pharma giants were granted immunity from liability.

January 13

First “imported” case of coronavirus

On 13 January 2020, the Ministry of Public Health, Thailand reported to the WHO the first imported case of lab-confirmed novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from Wuhan, Hubei Province. [1]

“The case is a 61-year-old Chinese woman living in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. On 5 January 2020, she developed fever with chills, sore throat and headache. On 8 January 2020, she took a direct flight to Thailand from Wuhan City… [She] was detected on the same day by thermal surveillance at Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), Thailand, and was hospitalized the same day.”

“She reported a history of visiting a local fresh market in Wuhan on regular basis prior to the onset of illness on 5 January 2020; however, she did not report visiting the Huanan South China Seafood Market from where most of the cases were detected.

On January 15, 2020, Japan reports the next imported case of lab-confirmed 2019-nCoV from Wuhan.

January 14

WHO: Preliminary evidence no human-to-human transmission

In a January 14, 2020 tweet the WHO state the “[p]reliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in Wuhan China.  Six days later they “found” the evidence. [1]

January 14

Chinese official privately warns virus will likely be a major public health event

On January 14, 2020 the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) National Health Commission’s chief, Ma Xiaowei, privately warns colleagues that the coronavirus is likely to develop into a major public health event according to a Five Eyes intelligence report leaked in May 2020.

Eight days later Wuhan goes into lockdown.

January 15

BioNTech launches Project Lightspeed to find a vaccine candidate

By mid January 2020 BioNTech starts Project Lightspeed [2] to develop a vaccine against this new coronavirus, several vaccine candidates are selected and initial non-clinical studies are conducted.

According to New York Times article, after Dr. Sahin, BioNTech’s CEO read an article in the The Lancet that left him convinced that the coronavirus would explode into a full-blown pandemic, scientists at the company, based in Mainz, Germany, canceled their vacations and set to work on what they called Project Lightspeed. [1]

  • By Mid-January 2020 “BioNTech selects several vaccine candidates and conducts initial non-clinical studies.”
  • BioNTech then partnered with Pfizer (and Fosun Pharma) in March 17 & 16, 2020 respectively, to co-develop and commercialization of an mRNA-based vaccine.
  • By December 2020, just after 11 months, the FDA awarded Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA), the first product BioNTech has brought to market.

BioNTech vaccine development timeline – HERE

January 15

US-China historic trade deal

After a year-and-a-half of negotiations and tariff escalation on January 15, 2020 US President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed an historic and enforceable agreement on a Phase One trade deal. The agreement required structural reforms and other changes to China’s economic and trade regime in the areas of intellectual property, technology transfer, agriculture, financial services, and currency and foreign exchange.  With the am of “securing a level playing field for American competitiveness”. [1, 2, 3]

The agreement went into effect on February 14, 2020, but by the end of 2021 China failed to reach anywhere near their purchase committed under the agreement, under the China-friendly Biden at the helm.

January 16

Imperial College release their first modelling predictions

On January 16, 2020 Neil Ferguson et al at the UK Imperial College, WHO collaboration centre, released their first modelling report “Estimating the potential total number of novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) cases in Wuhan City, China“, followed by their Report 2 on January 22, 2020 with their updated figures. [1, 2]

  • Report 1: estimated 1700 cases in Wuhan so far
  • Report 2: estimated 4000 cases in Wuhan with symptoms onset by January 18, 2020

On 23 January 2020 when China’s CDC director, Gao Fu was asked about the “UK universities” estimation of 2,000 people having been infected in China, he responded:

“What we’ve learned about the real situation is not in line with the model by the British scientist.”

“In order to know the exact casualty caused by a new virus, facts should be ascertained by the available numbers and it should not be based on theories.”

January 20

WEF: Food Action Alliance to transform food systems

On January 22, 2020 the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a partner of the United Nations announced the launch of Food Action Alliance (FAA) which they “catalysed“, with the help of the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Rabobank.

The FAA is a “coalition of organizations and initiatives” set up “to tackle an urgent historic challenge: to reshape the way we think, produce, supply and consume food,” to aid in the “transformation” of currently “unsustainable food systems” for both the growing population and in order to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) .[1, 2, 3, 4, ]

The FAA is said to build on the extensive experience of WEF’s New Vision for Agriculture initiative which was launched in Davos 2010 to help world hunger. [6, 7, 8]  It “is a ‘platform of platforms’ bringing together an unparalleled global network of public-, private- sector and non-state actors and existing initiatives and platforms to mobilize and coordinate collective investment and action to deliver on national food systems strategies and support a transition to improved food systems.” [4]

From this they hold a “Food Systems Summit”

The Rockefeller Foundation weighs in with a “Reset the Table” report in July 2020 stating “America faces a hunger and nutrition crisis unlike any this country has seen in generations”.  Food is on the Agenda-menu.

By mid-2022 the Dutch farmers get a taste for what is instore for “transformation”.

January 20

China/WHO: Human to Human transmission confirmed

On January 20, 2020 it is reported that scientists in China confirm human-to-human transmission of the new novel coronavirus, showing it is “contagious”. The WHO believe this is limited to “between close contacts”, as healthcare worker caring for patients with 2019-nCoV become infected. [1]

Though intelligence from a leaked Five Eyes report suggests China was aware there was “evidence of human-human transmission from early December,” yet Chinese authorities denied such transmission “until January 20.”

Officials in Taiwan had sounded the alarm about people spreading the virus to each other as early as December 31, 2019 and experts in Hong Kong did the same on January 4, 2020. [1]

WHO state “animal-to-human infection still appeared to be the main source of the outbreak”.

Global labs have begun work on “diagnostic tests” and started “work on a vaccine”.

[At the same time President Trump is being impeached]

January 20

Diamond Princess cruise ship departs Japan

On January 20, 2020 the Diamond Princess cruise ship departed Yokohama, Japan for a 14-day cruise to China, Vietnam, and Taiwan, then back to Japan.  On January 25, 2020 a passenger disembarks the ship in Hong Hong, China and 7 days later developed a fever.  The ship was quarantined in Yokohama on it’s return on February 3, 2020. [1]

January 21

The potential “Super Spreader” is born

According to ABC news  reported on January 21, 2020, “one of China’s top health experts is warning of the potential for “super-spreaders” to worsen the impact of the new coronavirus strain” as they “confirm” person-to-person transmission.

“Zhong Nanshan, the leader of an expert team sent to the city of Wuhan to investigate the deadly virus, told the South China Morning Post there was evidence one patient alone had spread the disease to 14 medical workers.”

Two days later China’s CDC director stated, “There’s no evidence to support the idea there are already super-spreaders.”

On 26 January, China’s Health Minister Ma Xiaowei told the press that “people can spread it before they become symptomatic.”


A Super Spreader is a “phenomenon” where a healthy person, with no symptoms of illness (asymptomatic), is allegedly highly contagious. [1, 2]

This “potential” threat to the spread of the virus comes just 8 days after a “diagnostic tool” is released by the WHO, that “could” diagnose the asymptomatic “potential” spreaders of the virus – The PCR test.

The WHO recommends (thanks to Drosten et al) to set the test at 40-45 cycles, to diagnose infection of SARS-CoV-2 in all people both with symptoms or healthy.

In time, experts reveal that the PCR test used with greater than 35 cycles leads to 97% false positive results – the very people who are classified as asymptomatic super spreaders and labelled as COVID-19 case – statistically ill!

January 21

US reports first novel coronavirus case – treated with remdesivir (antibiotics prior!)

On January 21, 2020, the CDC reported the detection of the first person in the United States diagnosed with 2019-nCoV infection.  The case history of this 35-year-old male, who became known as patient zero, was published, and said to have returned to Washington state from Wuhan, China on 15th January. [4, 5, 6]

The CDC press release added, “While originally thought to be spreading from animal-to-person, there are growing indications that limited person-to-person spread is happening. It’s unclear how easily this virus is spreading between people.” [3]

Genome testing, confirmed by Kristian Andersen, connected “patient zero” with the Life Care Center nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, where nearly half of initial COVID-19 deaths occurred.

The patented drug remdesivir by Gilead and which was “not yet licensed or approved anywhere globally”, was administered intravenously on day 7 of illness this first patient, by 30 January the patients symptoms had resolved, except for a mild cough.  The patient was treated with antibiotics on day 6 when pneumonia began to develop! [5]  Recovery was “attributed” to remdesivir, but the virus began to clear on day 3 (PCR Ct confirmed), and antibiotics cleared the lung infection!

A few days later China began testing remdesivir on their patients – but they failed to find a benefit.

On January 27, 2020 the CDC confirms 5 cases in the US all involved adults who traveled to Wuhan, China.  “At this time in the U.S., this virus is not spreading in the community”, thus the “immediate health risk” to the community is “low” said the CDC. An additional 73 potential cases are still under investigation.

The CDC is creating tests and laboratory guidelines “diagnostic kitsso states can perform their own testing“.

January 21

President Trump addressed the WEF at Davos 2020

On January 21, 2020 President Donald Trump gave a “Special Address” to the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2020 providing an overview of the United States achievements made in the past 3 years under his leadership.

“The US is in the midst of economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen before.” Trump said

With policies focused on the worker and middle class, he achieved the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years at 3.5%, its a “Blue Collar Boom” he said. The US stock market was up 50%, and 12,000 industries were gained back and growing, following the 60,000 factories lost under the previous 2 Administrations.  In early 2019 the US gained 25% share of all foreign investments.

Two traded deals were completed in the same week, one with China the other between US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA), the latter replacing the 25 year NAFTA, setting a “new model for trade for the 21st century” he said.

To embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse…They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortune tellers”….”Their alarmists always demand the same thing…absolute power to dominate, transform and control every aspect of our lives.”

The very next day Prince Charles launched the platform to drive a “new economic model”, which is counter to President Trump’s non-Socialist vision of:

“A growing and vibrant market economy, focused on the future, lifts the human spirit and excites creativity strong enough to overcome any challenge…”


Trump speaks to the many scientific breakthroughs of the 20th Century which…“have lifted living standards and saved billions of lives” but then says

we continue to work on things which you will be hearing about in the near future…we have found answers to things that people said would not be possible…certainly not possible in a very short period of time“.

Was he refering to mRNA new technology products called “vaccines”?  He did pass an Executive Order in Sepember 2019 to “modernize” influenza vaccines. Was Operation Warp Speed planned?

January 22

Prince Charles launched the Sustainable Market Initiative to accelerate a “new economic model”

On the second day (Jan 22, 2020) of the World Economic Forum’s 50th Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland (January 21-24, 2020),  Prince Charles launched the Sustainable Market Initiative which “aims to lead and accelerate the world’s transition to a sustainable future by putting nature, people and planet at the heart of global value creation” [1, 2, 3, 6]

The Prince also announced his 10-Point Plan: “Within the framework of sustainable markets and rapid decarbonization, Prince of Wales believes that changing our current trajectory will require bold and imaginative action in 10 key areas” [4]

The Sustainable Markets Initiative is [self appointed] “platform to inspire the innovation urgently needed to demonstrate what is possible, and accelerate the transition to sustainable markets” as they believe “our markets are unstainable” and a “new economic model” [hint] is needed.

Prince Charles began “discussions” months earlier in June 2019 by hosting a round table meeting, followed by his appointed Sustainable Markets Council meetings “comprising leaders from the public, private and philanthropic sectors” who are “working to transition the world to genuinely sustainable markets and a net-zero global economy”.  The Council met at the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York in September 2019.  Then in November 2019 Prince Charles hosted the inaugural meeting of the Sustainable Markets Council in London which includes WEF members, bankers and AstraZeneca. [5]

The day before Prince Charles, President Donald Trump gave a “Special Address” listing his achievements over the past 3 years of his presidency – in contradiction to the WEF plans [?]

January 22

Wuhan, China locks down and sets a “new standard”

Chinese government reported on January 22, 2020 the “Strictest measures enacted to contain viral pneumonia” where the city of Wuhan closed its transport networks and advised it’s citizens not to leave the city”.

11 million people in Wuhan, China, considered the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, are ordered to abide by the restrictions. [1]  Wuhan lockdown measures were kept in place until April 8, 2020.  It is thought 5 million people departed before the lockdown was put in place.

Locking down healthy people is a public health measure never done before for a virus outbreak.

On 30 January 2020, the WHO’s director general tweeted China’s lockdown measures are “setting a new standard for outbreak response.”

An action not actually based on science, and contrary to an October 2019 WHO report, yet sovereign nations of the world actively followed this unprecedented CCP led “control measure”!

Further key data points from the China report:

  • “On Jan 19, President Xi Jinping ordered that resolute efforts should be made to curb the spread of the virus, stressing putting people’s safety and health as the top priority.”
  • “The Wuhan Health Commission reported on the morning of Jan 21 that 15 medical workers in the city have been infected.”
  • At this time “much remains to be understood about 2019-nCoV, including how it is transmitted, the clinical features of the disease, its severity, the extent to which it has spread and its source.”
  • “Health experts agree the possibility exists for mutation of the virus”.
  • “Also on Jan 19, the National Health Commission listed the pneumonia caused by the virus among Grade B infectious diseases, a category that includes such major infectious diseases as SARS, AIDS and polio.”
  • “Currently, however, the new virus will be treated as a Grade A infectious disease, which requires the strictest prevention and control measures, including mandatory quarantine of patients and medical observation for those who have had close contact with patients, according to the commission.”  A classification reserved for “bubonic plague and cholera”, but “managing the new disease as Grade A will greatly help in its control and prevention.”
  • “On Jan 21, the World Health Organization said in a statement that sustained human-to-human transmission may exist, and warned more cases of the virus could appear in China and outside in the coming days, given travel patterns and increased testing.”
  • “China, along with other affected countries, will attend an emergency committee meeting convened by the WHO on Jan 22 to share information about the disease.”

Dr Ian Lipkin stated “The most important tool we have right now is isolation”…a vaccine will take us “a year or more to do”.

January 22

Johns Hopkins launch their coronavirus tracking dashboard

Ensheng Dong, a Johns Hopkins PhD student from China, created the JH online coronavirus tracking dashboard “to collect data to show the public”. [1]

After 12 hours of collecting and translating Chinese data, designing tables and “bulldozed the statistics into a program that would create a map”, the next morning on January 22, 2020 he showed his his supervisor, associate professor Lauren Gardner. “After a few tweaks, the project went live, with red dots ballooning across countries…to show numbers of known cases” and deaths.

The Coronavirus Resource Center “rapidly becomes a premier source around the world for real-time, accurate data about the pandemic. Its dashboard, created by Whiting School of Engineering civil and systems engineering associate professor Lauren Gardner and others, has been viewed more than 1 billion times.”

January 23

2019-nCoV genome 96.2% similar to a bat coronavirus

On January 23, 2020 – A team led by Shi Zheng-Li, from Wuhan Institute of Virology, reported on bioRxiv that they ” found that nCoV-2019 is 96% identical at the whole genome level to a bat coronavirus” which shows the coronavirus has a potential bat origin.  They also said it had 79.5% similarity to SARS-CoV, the coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

Reported in the paper they “found a short RdRp region from a bat coronavirus termed BatCoV RaTG13 which [was] previously detected in Rhinolophus affinis from Yunnan Province showed high sequence identity to nCoV-2019.”

An article in Science magazine a week later, states that it still “remains a mystery which animal spread the virus to humans.”

January 23

First media connection between Wuhan BSL-3 Lab and the new coronavirus

The British Daily Mail was one of the first to suggest a connection between the new coronavirus and the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory housed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, followed by the Washington Times.

The Wuhan BSL-4 lab is located 20 miles away from the Huanan Seafood Market. The lab happens to be the only BSL-4 lab in China designated for studying dangerous pathogens.

Shortly after, the main stream media and “scientists conspired and dubbed the lab leak possibility as a “conspiracy theory“, frantically steering the narrative towards a natural, animal origin.

January 23

China’s CDC director “confirms” seafood market animal as source of SARS-CoV-2

According to China media, on January 23, 2020 at a government briefing on the coronavirus outbreak the Director of the Chinese CDC, Gao Fu stated about the virus origin:

“We have confirmed it was transmitted via wild animals illegally sold at a seafood market in Wuhan.

At first, it was spread from animals to humans. However, the virus has since been mutating and has become adaptive to its host. Human-to-human transmission has occurred, and there has been some community transmission. That is to say, it has gone through three stages.”

No evidence is provided as to which specific zoonotic source, wild animal(s) that is.

In the weeks following this proclamation the media, public health and even scientists around the world  used this claim to begin reporting about the threat of animal to human (zoonotic) diseases from seafood markets, such as Australia’s 60 Minutes.

On March 26, 2020 in a report the WHO were unable to identify the origin of the virus, only environmental samples taken at the seafood market were positive for SARS-CoV-2, no animal.

By mid-2021, after 18 months and almost 3 million viruses sequenced in Hubei, China and world wide, the WHO investigation were unable to find a single animal specimen with SARS-CoV-2. [@3:38] [1]

January 23

Eurosurveillance Corman-Drosten PCR paper published

On January 23, 2020 Christian Drosten and Victor Corman et al publish in Eurosurveillance , just 24 hrs after submission, their paper titled “Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR” – the basis for PCR testing globally.  The paper was submitted only 11 days after genome sequence release on Jan 10, 2020, before anyone outside of China

In acute respiratory infection, RT-PCR is routinely used to detect causative viruses from respiratory secretions….virus isolates or samples from infected patients have so far not become available to the international public health community.”

“We report here on the establishment and validation of a diagnostic workflow for 2019-nCoV screening and specific confirmation, designed in absence of available virus isolates or original patient specimens”.

January 23

Aust: Human coronavirus with pandemic potential is added to Biosecurity determinations list

On January 23, 2020 Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a press release stated a “human coronavirus with pandemic potential” was added to the official Biosecurity (Listed Human Diseases) Determination 2016 under the Biosecurity Act of 2015, to enable the use of enhanced border measures. The same day flight MU 749 landed in Sydney Airport coming from Wuhan, China. This determination allowed a Biosecurity emergency to be called in March 18, 2020. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Brandan Murphy stated “Chinese authorities confirmed 571 cases of coronavirus infections and 17 deaths… and have now stopped transport out of Wuhan city.…There have been no reported confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Australia as yet.”

At the time Australia was still recovering from major bush fires.

[SARS-CoV-2 or the disease COVID-19 was never added to the notifiable Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) case registry, but SARS and MERS are!]

January 24

CDC publish instructions for use of RT-PCR test

On January 24, 2020 the CDC provided information for laboratories and  publish their instructions for use of Real-Time RT-PCR Panel for Detection 2019-Novel Coronavirus  along with publishing initial PCR “Primers and Probes” sequences [1, 2, 3, 4]

The charts indicated amplifying cycles up to 45, but stated Under Interpreting Test Results tht “RP should be positive at or before 35 cycles for all clinical samples and HSC, thus indicating the presence of sufficient nucleic acid from human RNase P gene and that the specimen is of acceptable quality.”  Their graph indicated the Cycle Threshold (Ct) before the “exponential PCR phase” was between 22 to 28 cycles of amplification.

January 24

China: videos of people collapsing in the streets of Wuhan

Around January 24th, 2020, viral video footage had spread throughout the world showing people collapsing in the streets of China, videos were tagged as coming from Wuhan where a new virus had emerged.  [1, 2]

Wall Street expert Edward Dowd stated:

“nothing comes out of China unless they want it to”

Were the videos staged or have other explanations but used by the media to instill fear?

January 24

Paper describing Wuhan virus sequencing

A paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled “A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019” describes how China CDC scientists took “lower respiratory tract samples…from patients with pneumonia of unknown cause” and “who had been present at the Huanan Seafood Market”.

“Extracted nucleic acid samples [RNA] were tested for viruses and bacteria by polymerase chain reaction” (PCR).  RNA extracted from lung fluid and culture supernatants was used as a template to clone and sequence the genome using genomic software.”  This paper references China’s PCR test.

“Primers were subsequently designed for PCR“.

“Although our study does not fulfill Koch’s postulates, our analyses provide evidence implicating 2019-nCoV in the Wuhan outbreak”.

The resultant genetic sequence that will become known as SARS-CoV-2.  A computer generated sequence of a virus not isolated and purified. [1, 2]

January 24

Wuhan, China: Clinical features of 2019 novel coronavirus

On January 24, 2020 The Lancet published data out of China, titles Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. 

By Jan 2, 2020, 41 admitted hospital patients had been identified as having laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection. The median age of the patients was 49·0 years, no children or adolescents were infected.

Of the 41 patients, 13 (32%) were admitted to the ICU because they required high-flow nasal cannula or higher-level oxygen support measures to correct hypoxaemia. Most of the infected were male, less than half with underlying conditions.

Invasive mechanical ventilation was required in four ([only] 10%) patients. . . . As of Jan 22, 2020, 28 (68%) of 41 patients have been discharged and six (15%) patients have died. [1]

January 24

Beijing prevent WIV sharing virus isolates with Uni Texas

On January 24, 2020 it is reported in a Five Eyes intelligence report that officials in Beijing, China prevented the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) from sharing virus sample isolates with the University of Texas. [There is a standing agreement between the labs]

“The Galveston National Laboratory is a national biocontainment laboratory built at the University of Texas Medical Branch [UTMB] by the National Institutes of Health and the State of Texas to help combat global health threats” [1, 2]

The UTMB released a statement in April 2020 saying the Galveston National Laboratory “has hosted Chinese scientists for training to work in the high-containment lab” and that its lab “is part of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID] Biodefense Laboratory Network.”

According to the U.S. Education Department, the UT system reported 10 contracts with Huawei and 24 contracts with Chinese state-owned universities between 2014 and 2019, totaling nearly $13 million”

January 25

Australia: First COVID-19 Case

First case of novel coronavirus 2019 is detected in Australia in a passenger who traveled from Guangdong, China, to Melbourne in the state of Victoria.

January 25

War Room: Pandemic is launched – before a “pandemic” is declared

Steve Bannon, former Chief Strategist to President Trump, who tracks world affairs and is focused on the CCP [4], transitioned his 6 day per week War Room: Impeachment podcast into War Room: Pandemic and launched the first episode on January 25, 2020. [3]  Because of his relationship with Miles Gao, he already knew the “coronavirus” was a “world historical event out of China”, even before the World Health Organisation officially declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020 [1, 2]

On the first show Bill Gertz presented intel on the Biological Labs in Wuhan, China which handling deadly viruses, and is part of China’s biological weapons program.  Simone Gao mentions footage of people collapsing on the street in China.

The next day, on January 26, 2020, Dr Anthony Fauci declared on John Catsimatidis radio show that there is nothing to worry about:

“The American people should not be worried of frightened by this its a very, very low risk to the United States …this is a virus that has emerged and jumped species from an animal reservoir”.

On January 30, 2020 the health freedom media platform The Highwire, which airs on Thursdays, had their first episode that began tracking the pandemic response.

Both The Highwire and Bannons War Room became a go-to source for information and education about the pandemic response and the bigger picture, emerging global affairs, for a growing audience throughout the world, not just America.  Both platforms were/are heavily censored and were deleted from YouTube.  Both platforms cover content which does not follow the mainstream media narrative.  [6, 7, 8]

War Room pandemic Ep 2, 3, 4 – today’s EPISODES,  pandemic timeline – ARCHIVE
The Highwire – EPISODES

January 26

China warns that coronavirus “spreads before symptoms show” (1 to 14 days)

China’s Health Minister Ma Xiaowei announced that the Wuhan coronavirus “can spread it before they become symptomatic.”, meaning people are contagious during the virus’ incubation period.  A highly unusual phenomenon and different to SARS-CoV! The incubation period of the new coronavirus “is anywhere from one to 14 days” officials believe. [1, 2]

CDC advisor Dr Schaffner said this “means the infection is much more contagious than we originally thought,” and “It’s much harder to contain a virus — to track down a patient’s contacts and quarantine them immediately — if the patient was spreading the disease for days or weeks before they even realized they had it.”

“Without symptoms, a person may not know they have the infection, but still be able to spread it.”  The Super-spreader that China’s CDC debunked a couple of days ago is back!

The authorities are still not clear about the disease source, but have now banned the sale of wildlife in markets and restaurants.
Many people believe that it crossed to humans from snakes.

January 28

SA declares COVID-19 a notifiable disease.

Human coronavirus disease 2019 was declared by the South Australian Minister for Health and Wellbeing to be a controlled notifiable condition by notice in the Gazette dated 28 January 2020 under the South Australian Public Health Act 2011. [1, 2, 3]

As a controlled notifiable condition it became a “legal requirement of all medical providers and laboratories to report any suspected, probable or confirmed cases” to SA Health.

On July 19, 2020, COVID-19 was further added to regulation 5 as a “controlled notifiable condition” under the South Australian Public Health (Notifiable and Controlled Notifiable Conditions) Regulations 2012 (SA).

This legislation amendment provides the Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) a “range of powers to require examination, testing, counselling, quarantine and detention in relation to controlled notifiable conditions”.

Never has COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 been defined by a case definition on the Federal Communicable Diseases Network Australia’s (CDNA) notifiable disease register, yet SARS, MERS, Monkeypox, RSV and many others diseases are there, but not pandemic COVID-19!

January 29

White House Coronavirus Task Force setup

President Trump creates the White House Coronavirus Task Force on January 29, 2020 to lead the coronavirus response.  This 12-member group was established just before HHS Secretary Alex Azar declared a public health emergency.  At that time there were 15 cases of the coronavirus in the US, of which on is in the hospital. “The task force is made up of subject matter experts from across the federal government and has been meeting daily since Monday”. [2]

The “experts” are claiming most people don’t have any immunity to it because it is a ‘new virus’, claiming “none of us have any protection”. [1]

Two days earlier on January 27, 2020, Trump’s staff attended the first full meeting on the coronavirus in the White House Situation Room. Unbeknownst to those in attendance, Matthew Pottinger, Deputy National Security Advisor, had unilaterally called the meeting.  He pushed for the travel bans while others urged for calm. [3]

On January 31, 2020, “Pottinger began popularizing the idea of shutdowns within the White House by circulating a Philly study among his White House colleagues” that showed Philadelphia was hit harder allegedly because they didn’t shut down.

Around the same time, Jan 28, CDC physician-scientist, Yen Pottinger, reached out to Deborah Birx on behalf of her husband Matt Pottinger to ask her to meet at the “West Wing”, where Matt then offered Birx “the position of White House spokesperson on the virus.” [3]

January 29

First AHPPC meeting on COVID-19

The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) documented first meeting on COVID-19.   AHPPC is comprised of all state and territory Chief Health Officers and is chaired by the Australian Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly.

This group is equivalent to UK SAGE.

January 30

CDC confirms first person-to-person spread of 2019-nCoV

On January 30, 2020 the CDC confirmed that the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) had spread from an infected person [woman from Chicago] to a house hold member [husband], representing the first instance of person-to-person transmission in the US, involving someone who had not traveled to China.  He is the 6th case in the US. [1, 2]

“Previously, all confirmed U.S. cases had been associated with travel to Wuhan, China,” this latest case has no history of travel to Wuhan, “but shared a household with the patient diagnosed with 2019-nCoV infection on January 21, 2020.”

“Officials warned that the case of human-to-human transmission indicated that the coronavirus was a “very serious public health situation.”

January 30

WHO declares COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern

The International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee for COVID-19 held its first meeting on January 22 & 23, 2020 [found COVID-19 not an emergency], then 7 days later on January 30, 2020 they met again and upon the committee’s advice, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesuss declared that the novel coronavirus outbreak constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the “WHO’s highest level of alarm“. [1, 3]

  • “The Committee also acknowledged that there are still many unknowns, cases have now been reported in five WHO regions in one month, and human-to-human transmission has occurred outside Wuhan and outside China.”
  • “The Committee believes that it is still possible to interrupt virus spread, provided that countries put in place strong measures to detect disease early, isolate and treat cases, trace contacts, and promote social distancing measures commensurate with the risk.”
  • “The Committee agreed that the outbreak now meets the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.”
  • The Committee emphasized that the declaration of a PHEIC should be seen in the spirit of support and appreciation for China, its people, and the actions China has taken on the frontlines of this outbreak, with transparency, and, it is to be hoped, with success. In line with the need for global solidarity, the Committee felt that a global coordinated effort is needed to enhance preparedness in other regions of the world that may need additional support for that.

“A key factor in reaching their decision – which the WHO had initially been reluctant to make – was that the outbreak was no longer limited to China but had spread rapidly to 18 other countries. Among them, Australia, Vietnam and South Korea which all announced new infections today, while India and the Philippines reported their first cases, and the CDC announced the first person-to-person transmission of the virus in the U.S.” [2]

  • Australia is represented by Professor John Mackenzie of Curtin University on the Emergency Committee.
  • At the time PHEIC was declared 171 people were determined to have died globally from the novel coronavirus. [4]
  • Is this the mark for the start of a technocratic “new economic model”?

Only 5 times before has the WHO declared a PHEIC, since its power to do so was established in 2005 with the IHR:

  • 2009 pandemic influenza
  • 2014 polio resurgence
  • 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa2016 Zika virus outbreak
  • 2019 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
January 30

India & the Philippines confirms thier first coronavirus case

On January 30, 2020, India confirmed that at least one case of coronavirus has reached the country.  The Philippines also confirmed its first case on the same day. [1]

By April 5, 2020, as reported in the Hindustan Times, police surveillance with cameras and drones are used in India, ensuring citizen compliance (stay indoors and maintain social distancing) of COVID-19 lockdown measures.

January 31

FDA grants license for new pandemic influenza vaccine using next generation technology

On January 31, 2020 the FDA approved “the first adjuvanted, cell-based influenza vaccine” called of Audenz, designed to protect individuals 6 months and older against the H5N1 avian influenza virus, and is said to be “a major milestone in pandemic influenza preparedness”.  [1]

AUDENZTM, an Influenza A (H5N1) Monovalent Vaccine containing the MF59C.1 adjuvant and hidden ingredients, is sponsored by Seqirus Inc and supported by the US government agency, BARDA.  Instead of producing the vaccine in chicken embryos, which is said to have “supply” issues in times of a pandemic, “Audenz uses two leading-edge technologies – an antigen-sparing adjuvant and cell-based vaccine technology – that represent a game-changing advance in the state of pandemic influenza preparedness.”

The application was submitted in January 2019, before President Trump’s Influenza EO, on the grounds “for Accelerated Approval of Biological Products for Serious or Life-Threatening Illnesses”.  The vaccine will be produced in the US and supplied on demand.  The approval letter acknowledged the manufactures “plans to collect additional safety and effectiveness data in the U.S., when Influenza A (H5N1) Monovalent Vaccine, Adjuvanted is used.”

Australia’s CSL (Seqiris part of CSL) has this H5N1 vaccine in “registration” with TGA according to their pipeline.

January 31

US declares a Public Health Emergency

On January 31, 2020 in the US, “[a]s a result of confirmed cases of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)”, HHS secretary Alex Azar determined “that a public health emergency (PHE) exists and has existed since January 27, 2020, nationwide”. “This U.S. public health emergency declaration follows a declaration by the World Health Organization that spread of the virus constituted a public health emergency of international concern.” [2, 3]

This declaration sets up justification for Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) of drugs where “the FDA Commissioner may allow medical countermeasures to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by [biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear agents], when there are no adequate, approved and available alternatives.” [4]

In January 2017, FDA finalized the guidance to explain the FDA’s general recommendations and procedures applicable to EUA for industry and stakeholders.

  • January 31, 2020 – declared public health emergency under the Public Health Service Act
  • March 13, 2020 – two national emergency declarations under both the Stafford Act and the National Emergencies Act (NEA)
  • March 18, 2020 – invoked emergency powers via Executive Order under the Defense Production Act
  • March 19, 2020 –  Trump named the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the lead agency in the COVID-19 emergency response efforts, a designation previously held by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [5]
January 31

WHO releases COVID-19 Case Definitions

On January 31, 2020 the WHO released their interim guidelines for Case Definitions for Surveillance purposes:

  • Suspected case
  • Probable case
  • Confirmed case

A confirmed case: “A person with laboratory confirmation of 2019-nCoV infection, irrespective of clinical signs and symptoms

WHO Dec 2020 update:  A Confirmed Case: “A person with a positive Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT)”, which is simply a positive RT-PCR test,  no symptoms necessary.  A positive PCR result makes a healthy person “statistically ill”.

February 1
February 1

Dr Fauci has confidential emergency teleconference with Jeremy Farrar et al

It was revealed in a series of emails obtained from Dr Anthony Fauci under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that on Saturday February 1, 2020 he attended a “confidential” teleconference set up by Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust (a WHO partner) with 11 other invited participants including Dr Fauci and Dr Francis Collins, but notably absent/excluded were President Trump’s other coronavirus task force members, in particular CDC director Dr Redfield – who’s view didn’t follow their “narrative”.

This “emergency” teleconference appears to have been sparked because of the “revelation” from Kristian Andersen et al, that the virus genome was “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory”, thus it could potentially be engineered and of lab origin. [1]

By March 5, 2023 in a congressional memorandum, it stated that “[i]t was on this conference call that Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 [techically SARS-CoV-2] may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated”

Three days later, on February 4, 2020, “four participants of the conference call authored a paper entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin) and …[p]rior to final publication in Nature Medicine, the paper was sent to Dr. Fauci for editing and approval.” The preprint was published Feb 16, 2020.

February 1

Chinese scientists concluded the virus was of lab origin – follow the bats!

On February 1, 2020, two Chinese scientists, Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao, one from Wuhan, published the pre-print paper “The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus”, the paper was quickly scrubbed and only available in the web archives. [1, 2]

In the paper they point out that “According to municipal reports and the testimonies of 31 residents and 28 visitors, the bat was never a food source in the city, and no bat was traded in the market.”  They also point out there is no recombination or intermediate host that has been reported.

But they screened the area around the Wuhan seafood market and identified two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus:

  1. the Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention (WHCDC) located ~280 meters, which also happens to be adjacent the Union Hospital where the first group of doctors were infected.
  2. Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences ~12 kilometers

Of the latter, the “principle investigator participated in a project which generated a chimeric virus using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, and reported the potential for human emergence.”

From this circumstantial evidence they concluded “the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan. ”

Vanity Fair reported that US National Security Council (NSC) officials sited this pre-print paper said to be published on February 1, 2020 noting that “[a]lmost as soon as the paper appeared on the internet, it disappeared, but not before U.S. government officials took note.” (sec V)

Then on February 19, 2020 a group of 27 public health scientists from eight countries signed an open letter in The Lancet to condemn conspiracy theories surrounding the origin of the virus.  The same day the WHO affirms the virus was not produced in a laboratory or as a biological weapon. [3]

In June 2021 an Austalian journalist reported evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology kept live bats in cages inside their labs, contrary to WHO investigators claiming this was a “conspiracy”!

February 1

South Australia: First 2 cases

SA announces first two cases of COVID-19 in couple returning from Wuhan.

February 1

Italy launches “Hug a Chinese” campaign

On February 1, 2020 Italy launched their “Hug a Chinese” campaign.  China was reported to have reached out to the Italian government to help with Chinese relations and so launched “Hug a Chinese” day, where “well put together” videos were aired!

At the time thousands of Chinese immigrants from the city of Wuhan traveled to Northern Italy for work, the very area hardest hit with COVID-19 deaths.

21 days after the campaign launch on February 21, 2020, Italy reported it’s first official COVID-19 patient in a little town near Milan, in the northern region of Lombardy. [1]

In retrospect a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan showed that SARS-CoV-2 was spreading in Northern Italy as early as September 2019.

February 1

Borders begin closing around the world

As the coronavirus spreads around the world countries begin closing borders and restricting travel from February 1, 2020, except for their own citizens coming home.  Mandatory 14 days quarantine was required upon entry in many countries. [1, 2, 3]

On February 1, 2020 Australia’s “National Security Committee of Cabinet (NSC) had decided, based on health advice from the CMO and AHPPC, to introduce strict travel restrictions on the entry to Australia of foreign nationals who were, on that date, in mainland China.” [5]

On March 20, 2020 President Trump baned non-essential travel between US and Mexico. [4]

February 1

CEPI calls for vaccine proposals with proven, rapid and scalable technologies

On February 1, 2020 the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) put out a “Call for Proposals” for proven vaccine technologies, applicable for large scale manufacturing, for rapid response against novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV with an application deadline of February 14, 2020 (“open for 2 weeks”).

Stating the “rapid global spread and unique epidemiological characteristics of 2019-nCoV virus is deeply concerning”

February 2

50 tons vitamin C delivered to Wuhan, then ICU admissions plummeted

On February 2, 2020 Dutch State Mines (DSM) subsidiary DSM Jiangshan Pharmaceutical (Jiangsu) Co. tweeted that they had shipped  50 tons of vitamin C to China’s Hubei Province, where Wuhan is located. This shipment provided 50 million one gram doses of immune boosting Vitamin C which was given to hospitalised patients and hospital workers. [1, 4]

On February 24, 2020 the Chinese CDC published their novel coronavirus data for up to February 11, 2020, revealing, prior to vitamin C’s distribution,  5% of COVID-19 cases were “critical” [ICU] with a case fatality rate (CFR) of 2.4%. [3, 5]  It was reported on February 19, 2020 that cases in Hubei had declined.

A randomised clinical trail using high dose vitamin C in ICU patient in Wuhan began early February 2020.  But following this shipment of vitamin C “new admissions into Intensive Care Units (ICUs) plummeted“, and as a result the study failed to enrol the needed 140 patients to be statistically powered.  Nevertheless, the trial reported patients who received IV vitamin C (IVC) were 60% more likely to survive and had statistically improved markers, revealing a potential benefit for incorporating IVC into hospital treatments. [2]

Yet, in early 2020 any social media talk about potential benefits of vitamin C was censored, YouTube deleted content as they said it went against WHO guidelines!

February 2

Ethiopia continues to allows Chinese traffic entry – first case

It is noted that on February 2, 2020 the Ethiopian government, despite citizen backlash, kept air travel from China open, despite Australia, Japan and the US already imposing travel restrictions. Ethiopia is the entry point for air travel between China through which they received around 1,500 passengers from China per day.

The first reported case of coronavirus into Ethiopia was on March 13, 2020, a 48-year-old Japanese national who had entered the country after visiting Burkina Faso has tested positive for the virus.  The government of Ethopia was said to be following the WHO’s directions.

The Director-General of the WHO, Tedros, is from Ethiopia.

February 2

Virus genome paper published then withdrawn within a week.

On February 2, 2020, a paper by Indian authors Pradhan et al, titled “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag” was published and then withdrawn within a week.

“The scientific paper claimed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus had four “inserts” in its spike protein that were similar to the ones found in HIV, and concluded that these are unlikely to occur naturally in a coronavirus, suggesting an “unconventional evolution” of the virus that warrants further investigation.” [1, 2]

This paper was discussed by Dr Fauci as revealed in his emails released under Freedom of Information.

February 2

US bans entry from China, Biden accuses Trump of being xenophobic

On January 31, 2020 the Trump administration put into place temporary travel restrictions that bared entry into the United States by any foreign national who has traveled to China in the past 14 days, American citizen returning to the United States from the Hubei Province in China will be subject to up to 14 days of mandatory quarantine.  The ban came into effect on February 2, 2020

Dr Fauci said the actions were being taken because there were “a lot of unknowns” surrounding the virus and its transmission path.

Trump was accused of being “xenophobic” by the media and Democrats, who by April changed their tune!

On February 2, 2020 Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden led the way, quickly attacking what he called Trump’s “record of hysteria, xenophobia and fear-mongering” after the travel restrictions were announced, and stated that Trump “is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency.”  2 months later Trump is accused of being slow to respond to the virus!

February 3

Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Japan

The Diamond Princess cruise ship with 2666 passengers and 1045 crew on board, with an average age of 66 years, on February 3, 2020 was held in quarantine in Japan’s Yokohama Port due to one passenger testing positive for COVID-19 on February 1, 2020 while still at sea. That passenger had disembarked the ship in Hong Kong on January 25, 2020 and 5 days later develped a fever. [1, 11]

The Diamond Princess left Yokohama on January 20, 2020 for a 14-day cruise to China, Vietnam, and Taiwan, then back to Japan. [8]

On February 20, 2020 it was reported that 2 Japanese passengers in their 80’s had died and 620 were “infected” or PCR positive.  The WHO tweeted “Of all cases outside #China, over 1/2 are among passengers on the #DiamondPrincess cruise ship.” [4, 5, 6]

Japan’s National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) moved into action and assisted with infection control and patient care. [9]

The Australian government on Feb. 20, 2020 started to “evacuate” over 200 Australians who were onboard – which helped bring the virus into the country! The passengers had already spent 14 days quarantined on board the ship, followed by another 14 days at the Howard Springs quarantine facility close to Darwin.  Several fell ill on return to Australia. [7]  The same story for around 400 American passengers.

News of this Diamond Princess spread all over the world and the death rate based on unreliable data, added impetus for shutting down the world! [2]

In total, 14 passengers were reported to have died due to the novel virus, half after they left the ship.  There “are differing opinions as to how many of these deaths should be attributed to Covid. Except for one person in their late 60s, all deaths occurred in those over 70.” Not one crew member died.  Three ill patients were given experimental remdesivir, on “compassionate” grounds and apparently survived.  The elderly passengers were forced to stay in their rooms for 14 days, what affect did this have on their health and well being?  [3]

The Diamond Princess was meant to be the “worse case scenario” of susceptible elderly in close quarters to those infected, but the data “arguably indicates that the severity may well have been even milder than generally believed, and clearly was of no danger to the non-elderly”

February 4

WHO – Strategic Preparedness and Response Plans

WHO released their Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP), their strategy for coordinating national, regional, and global actions in the response to COVID-19, and chart the course out of the pandemic. [1, 2]

Each country was encouraged to plan its preparedness and response actions in line with the Feb 2020 global SPRP2021 document.

New updated SPRP2021 was released February 1, 2021.

February 4

US HHS secretary determines EUA justified and invokes the PREP Act

Following the declaration of a Public Health Emergency (PHE) on January 31, 2020 by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, he then determined that circumstances existed to justify the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) of medical devices, including alternative products used as medical devices, (including biological products), pursuant to pursuant to section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act. The declaration was effective Febraury 4, 2020 [3, 5]

The HHS Secretary the invoked the 2005 PREP Act, the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, back dating it effective February 4, 2020. Under this US Act pharma giants are provided total immunity from liability until 2024. [1, 2, 4, 6]

The FDA may issue an EUA ONLY after concluding that 4 statutory criteria are met:

  1. The agent referred to in the declaration [SARS-CoV-2 which causes disease COVID-19] can cause serious or life-threatening disease or condition.
  2. Evidence of effectiveness based on the totality of scientific evidence available. [5]
  3. The known potential benefits outweigh the known potential risks.
  4. There is no adequate, approved, and available alternative.
February 4

CDC release their PCR test to diagnose COVID-19

On Monday, February 3, 2020, CDC submitted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) their own product package to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expedite FDA permitted use in the United States.”  This is to “authorize the use of unapproved, but potentially life-saving medical or diagnostic products during a public health emergency.”

The next day on February 4, 2020, the FDA issued the EUA and the CDC release their  “CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-RCR Diagnostic Panel” which is “intended for the presumptive qualitative detection of nucleic acid from the 2019-nCoV…Positive results are indicative of active infection with 2019-nCoV but do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses.”

During the following 21 days after release of the CDC “exclusive” kit, “performance issues were identified related to a problem in the manufacturing of one of the reagents which led to laboratories not being able to verify the test performance.”  By then the virus had spread across the country.  The CDC test kit fiasco had hindered the public health response to the virus.

Which in May 2021 a FOIA revealed that the tests were “poorly designed and came with erroneous instructions that made it doubly difficult for labs to rely on the test’s results” and the CDC lab scientists knew that the tests failed 33% of the time but didn’t stop it’s release.

February 5

Impeachment trial: President Trump acquitted

On February 5, 2020 President Donald Trump’s attempted impeachment ended in his acquittal following Senate impeachment trial.  The impeachment began September 24, 2019.

February 5

Dr Fauci: masks are not really effective in keeping out virus

In an email dated February 5, 2020 Anthony Fauci tells Sylvia Burwell that:

Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection…[t]he typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material” [@6:30]

The email was gained through a Freedom of Information request by ICAN.

February 7

Australia Dept Health release first National “COVID-19 Plan”

On February 7, 2020 the Australian Department of Health released its first Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-2019) [v1, v2] providing an overview of the National operational action plan, a living document guided the Australian governments “health response” to the pandemic. [1]

The document noted:

  • “currently, there is no specific treatment (no vaccine and no antiviral) against the new virus.”  [This “health” body does not mention of boosting the immune system as a first line of defense!]
  • that no previous “emerging” viruses had “sustained human to human transmission”.
  • Up until then the Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza (the AHMPPI) was the key nationally agreed document to guide Australia’s pandemic response, this plan adapts AHMPPI for novel coronavirus.
  • the pandemic response activities “should be implemented”  would “be selected by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC), in consultation with relevant parties and on advice from expert bodies.”

The AHPPC is part of the Department of Health’s and is “key health sector coordination mechanism that provides advice to whole-of-government crisis committees”, they are part of the emergency response National Incident Centre (NIC) the focal body that inturn coordinates with the WHO.

AHPPC gave their first advice on January 29, 2020, a time which “AHPPC still believes that most infections are transmitted by people with symptomatic disease” but they took a “highly precautionary approach” by recommending people should isolate in their home for 14 days following exposure. [2]

Originally coined the National Incident Room, the health department established the National Incident Center (NIC) in November 2019 in response to a measles outbreak in Samoa, followed by the Black Summer bushfires across Australia in late 2019.  NIC are also responsible for undertaking the duties and responsibilities of Australia under the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR), and thus the focal point for WHO communications as directed by the National Health Security Act (2007). The centre is staffed by a core of officers within the Department of Health, and draws on other government agencies. [3, 4, 5]

February 8

China confirms direct, contact and aerosol transmission routes of SARS-CoV-2

On February 8, 2020 China official at Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau announced the “confirmed transmission routes” of the novel coronavirus to include “direct transmission, contact transmission and aerosol transmission”

“Experts explained that direct transmission refers to infection caused by inhalation of air close to a patient who sneezes and coughs, while contact transmission occurs when a person touches an object tainted with droplets containing the virus before infecting himself through subsequent contact with the membranes of his mouth, nose and eyes.”

“The government has urged residents to avoid gatherings, open windows to help with ventilation, practice good personal hygiene and regularly disinfect their homes, especially areas like door handles, dinner tables and toilet sea”

February 10

Poor interest in coronavirus research is a concern

Statnews draws attention to the field of coronavirus research to be “small and modestly funded” and as the past two decades have proven is a “boom-and-bust” research area, as such coronavirus experts are minimal to few.

In addition, there are no drugs approved specifically to treat coronavirus infection, and the demand for funding and career focus is driven by the need.

A “declared” pandemic would “highlight” that immediate need, the “economics will follow the hype” said Peter Daszak in March 2015 workshop.  The hype is needed to sustain the research funding!

February 11

US HHS-BARDA announce collaboration with Janssen/J&J on vaccine

On February 11, 2020, the US Health & Human Services (HHS), the parent body of the FDA, announced a collaboration with Janssen Research & Development, part of Johnson & Johnson, to help “develop coronavirus therapeutics, as well to “expedite development of vaccines that protect against the 2019 novel coronavirus”

The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), headed by Rick Bright [1, 2, 3], is part of HHS & ASPR, they will collaborate with Janssen to identify compounds that have antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 as an initial step in developing new treatments.

BARDA will share research and development costs and expertise to help accelerate Janssen’s investigational novel coronavirus vaccine into clinical evaluation.

 

February 11

WHO defines nomenclature

On February 11, 2020 the WHO announced that the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) had classified the novel coronavirus (formally 2019-nCov) as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing the disease called Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). [1, 2, 3, 4]

February 11

Images of the virus SARS-CoV-2

NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana, claimed to have produced images of SARS-CoV-2 using scanning and transmission electron microscopes (EM). Other claim EM images show the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but is it viral-like particles or cellular debris? [1, 2, 3, 4 ]

Compare to the SARS and MERS viruses.

February 11

WHO develop global research roadmap for 2019 Novel Coronavirus

On 11-12 February 2020, the WHO, in collaboration with the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response (GLOPID-R) – an international network of funders to facilitate coordination and information sharing, organized a Global Forum on research and innovation for COVID-19 (‘Global Research Forum’). [1]

Using the R&D Blueprint strategy as a framework at this forum world scientists assessed “the current level of knowledge about the new virus, agree on critical research questions that need to be answered urgently, and to find ways to work together to accelerate and fund priority research to curtail this outbreak and prepare for those in the future.”

From this the WHO SOLIDARITY trials emerged.

February 15

WHO: we’re fighting an infodemic!

Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced at the Munich Security Conference in February 2020:

“we’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic … Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous.
That’s why we’re also working with search and media companies like Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Tencent, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and others to counter the spread of rumours and misinformation…

  • This is a time for facts, not fear.
  • This is a time for rationality, not rumours.
  • This is a time for solidarity, not stigma.

In April 2020 the UN Secretary-General launched the United Nations Communications Response initiative to combat the spread of mis- and disinformation, then at the World Health Assembly in May 2020, WHO Member States passed Resolution WHA73.1 on the COVID-19 response to recognize “that managing the infodemic is a critical part of controlling the COVID-19 pandemic”. [1]

Infodemic is now a “public health” issue managed by WHO Department of Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness, who state infodemics occur during an epidemic, and is an “emerging scientific field” called infodemiology. [6]

The WHO hold Infodemic Management training (1st, 2nd, 3rd), they have an Infodemic Management team, they hold conferences and produce summary reports, they’re doing infodemic research and so much more. [2, 3, 4, 5]

This inspired the formation of “The Disinformation Project” in New Zealand to study the trends of mis- and disinformation. [7]

February 16

WHO: China setting the stage for global reponse

The WHO released a report dated 16-24 February 2020, on how China responded to COVID-19 and how the virus spreads. This Joint Mission report includes relevant statements that set the stage for how the world then responded:

  • bats
  • seafood market
  • no prior immunity
  • post infection immunity
  • droplet transmission
  • human-to-human transmission
  • contact tracing
  • symptom – spectrum from asymptomatic to death
  • 80% cases mild to moderate
  • incubation possibly 1-14 days
  • at highest risk are with underlying conditions – over 80

The report found “early cases identified in Wuhan are believed to have acquired infection from a zoonotic source” in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. [1]

On February 24, 2020 the joint mission taskforce reported that lockdowns worked and the rest of the world should follow China’s lead.

February 17

Dr Fauci states the risk of this virus is minuscule

On February 17, 2020 Dr Anthony Fauci, a “Global Health Expert” who sits on numerous, influential global health boards stated

“the risk of coronavirus in USA right now is minuscule”

He also pointed out “a mask is for the infected”, just keep washing your hand. Sound advice.

It won’t be long before Dr Fauci flip-flops on his own advice.

February 18

Two German travellers: suggest asymptomatic spread of SARS-CoV-2

In correspondence to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on February 18, 2020 of a group of German national evacuated from Hubei Province, who were screened “for symptoms and clinical signs of infection” before their departure from China and again upon arrival in Frankfurt, found 2 persons with no symptoms but returned a positive PCR test.

“Two of the 114 persons (1.8%) in this cohort of travelers who had passed [asymptomatic] the symptoms-based screening tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR (cycle threshold value in the two samples, 24.39 and 30.25, respectively).”  They both remained well with no fever for 7 days post admission.

“In this effort to evacuate 126 people from Wuhan to Frankfurt, a symptom-based screening process was ineffective in detecting SARS-CoV-2 infection in 2 persons who later were found to have evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in a throat swab. We discovered that shedding of potentially infectious virus may occur in persons who have no fever and no signs or only minor signs of infection.”

This correspondence served as “evidence” for Bill Gates once-in-a-century paper ten days later.

February 19

Trimeric spike glycoprotein becomes the target for novel vaccines

A study published February 19, 2020 providing the first 3D map of the coronavirus is said to be “a breakthrough achievement that could speed the development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine” as it provides “valuable information to guide the development of medical counter-measures for 2019-nCoV”, now called SARS-CoV-2.

The virus binds to host cells through its trimeric spike glycoprotein, making this spike protein a key target for potential vaccines, therapies and diagnostics.

The researchers state “this protein binds at least 10 times more tightly” than SARS-CoV to their common host receptor – the human ACE2 receptor, and this affinity “may contribute to the apparent ease with which 2019-nCoV can spread from human to human.” [1]

This information “should enable the rapid development and evaluation of medical countermeasures to address the ongoing public health crisis.”

February 19

Scientific Consensus: Lancet letter used to “debunk” lab-leak theory

On February 19, 2020 a letter was published in The Lancet by 27 expert scientists to debunk “rumours and misinformation” about potential lab leak origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.  This consensus was used as “evidence” for suppressing debate on whether the virus could have escaped the Wuhan lab; demonstrating the power of “scientific consensus” coupled with the media influence to rule a narrative. [1]

They stated: “we stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin”

They claimed no competing interests! Though 2021, it was revealed that 26 of the 27 scientists have links to Wuhan scientists including Professor John Mackenzie from Australia, who also served on WHO Emergency Committee. [2, 3]

Emails gained under FOI request shows planning by Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance in who should sign the letter! [4]

In June 2021 we learn:

  • Peter Daszak who heads EcoHealth Alliance who funds Wuhan Institute of Virology and is a WHO investigator clearly has competing interests.
  • Daszak thanked Fauci in an email for dismissing the lab-leak theory
  • Peter Palese does a 180 turn in opinion.
  • Jeremy Farrar, of the Wellcome Trust and on the CEPI executive and SAC is very conflicted, and focused on evolutionary origin as per 13 Feb 2020 email from Fauci.
  • Drosten wrote controversial PCR paper.
  • The Lancet editor refuses to comment.

Watch @3min >>

February 19

Determining the Incubation Period

WHO worked with an international network of statisticians and mathematical modellers to estimate key epidemiological parameters of COVID-19, such as the incubation period (the time between infection and onset of symptoms). 

  • Preliminary estimates of median incubation period are 5-6 days (ranging from 0-14 days).
  • By March 6, 2020, the WHO settled on incubation period of up to 14 days [2]. 

With the new concept of asymptomatic spread, an incubation period gives cause to isolate a PCR positive test case for the WHO declared maximum duration of 14 days.  Meaning it could be 14 days before the onset of symptoms!  That person may never produce symptoms!  Historically a disease meant “dis-ease”, not well, having a symptom. 

From 2020 anyone off the street can get diagnosed with COVID-19 disease if they return a positive PCR test, the lab runs the cycles of amplification up to 40 cycles (or 45) , which as Kary Mullis cautioned, you’re sure to find “something” its that good!

February 20

First Italian COVID-19 patient registered in Lombardy

February 20, 2020: the first Italian patient affected by COVID-19 is registered in Lombardy, a region in northern Italy. [1]

February 21

China report asymptomatic spread of SARS-CoV-2

On February 21, 2020 Chinese scientists publish letter to JAMA Network “presuming” that they have evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is spread from asymptomatic carriers after a “20-year-old woman from Wuhan passed it to five of her family members but never got physically sick herself”. [1]

Reports of nursing home residents (the highest risk group) test positive for the virus, presumed infectious, but don’t show any symptoms.

February 21

Italy first Western country to go into lockdown

On February 21, 2020 Italy, was the first Western country to lock down. “Over 50,000 people have been asked to stay at home in the areas concerned, while all public activities such as carnival celebrations, church masses and sporting events have been banned for up to a week.”[1]

It is unclear why regional health chief Giulio Gallera decided to lock down, as the WHO had not released their report yet [2]

February 24

WHO: China “demonstrated” lockdowns worked and saved lives

On February 24, 2020, Dr Bruce Aylward (Team Leader), who had just concluded a WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19, told the world at WHO press briefing that the lockdown in China worked… [1]

What China has demonstrated is, you have to do this. If you do it, you can save lives and prevent thousands of cases of what is a very difficult disease.

Starting Febraury 16, 2020 the “mission has visited Beijing, Guangdong, Sichuan and Wuhan of Hubei province successively and completed all the tasks as planned”

February 24

Chinese military scientist files for COVID vaccine patent, then dies!

According to documents obtained by The Australian’s Sharri Markson (4 June 2021), Chinese military scientist Zhou Yusen, who specialised in coronavirus research and was funded by US NIH( separate to EcoHealth alliance funding), filed for COVID vaccine patent in February 2020. He mysteriously died May 2020, just 3 month later. [1, 2]

Filing a patent in this time frame, Flinders University researcher Nikolai Petrovsky noted was a “remarkable achievement“, raising questions as to when the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was first known.

February 24

Chief Medical Officer warns a pandemic is likely

Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald there was “a strong possibility of a pandemic” which had “increased in recent days” and has not been contained.”   At this point “There is still no sign the virus is spreading in Australia.”

  • it is now clear the virus can readily spread through coughing and sneezing.
  • “This is a proper respiratory virus, with all the bells and whistles,” Professor Mackey of UQ said
  • The WHO has yet to declare COVID-19 a pandemic – “a disease that spreads across the globe”
  • The WHO’s declaration of a pandemic is  “no longer a designation triggering a formal response“!!!
  • A sudden eruption of cases in Italy has forced them to lockdown
  • The virus is spreading undetected, probably by people who are infected but not showing symptoms.
  • Australian hospitals preparing for “the surge in patients a pandemic would cause”
  • Age care expected to be worst hit
  • Coronavirus poses a very small risk to healthy people aged under 60″ like the common cold
February 25

French Virologist Shares Chloroquine Treatment.

French Biologist and Infectious Diseases Specialist – Dr Didier Raoult MD  said reposition old drug molecules with known toxic profiles to see if they could be used to treat the new coronavirus. Cloroquine brings spectacular improvement in trials. [Translation][1]

Didier said “From all respiratory infections [SARS-CoV-2 is] probably the easiest to treat. There’s really no need to rush to produce a vaccine”.

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are listed as WHO Essential Medicines.

February 25

Australia’s Pandemic Emergency Response Plan enacted

The Australian Prime Minister activated the government’s health emergency response plan, or‘pandemic blueprint, to an “impending coronavirus pandemic, foreshadowing fever clinics, fast-tracked vaccines and severe pressure on hospitals, blood banks, medical supplies and mortuaries”. [1, 2, 3]

February 26

President Trump names VP Mike Pence to coordinate the Coronavirus response

At a White House news conference on February 26, 2020, President Trump announced that Vice President Mike Pence would coordinate the government’s response to the public health threat and lead the Coronavirus Taskforce, he wanted governors and members of Congress to have a single point-person to communicate with [1, 2]

At the news conference Dr. Anne Schuchat, the principal deputy director of the C.D.C., warned Americans that there would be more infections, there is currently 60, though “the trajectory of what we’re looking at over the weeks and months ahead is very uncertain.”

Pence selected Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the director of the United States effort to combat H.I.V. and AIDS, to serve as the Coronavirus Response Coordinator for the White House.  Mr. Trump said that “Mike is going to be in charge, and Mike will report back to me.”  Meanwhile, Alex M. Azar II, the health and human services secretary, remains the chairman of the government’s coronavirus task force.

The appointment of a taskforce was “to coordinate the alphabet soup of federal health and security agencies that have roles to play in protecting the country.”

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, told associates that the White House had instructed him not to say anything else without clearance.

The announcement also came on a day when the CDC reported a person infected, with no known risk factors, who did not appear to have traveled to countries hard hit by the virus or been exposed to a known coronavirus patient. “That raised the prospect that the virus was spreading through unknown means.”  At this point the CDC limited testing for the virus to people who have traveled in China or have come into contact with someone who has, where as other countries are testing more broadly. [3]

February 26

US could have 1.9 million requiring ICU – not enough ventilators

From a February 26, 2020 , “leaked’ slides from Dr. James Lawler presentation to the American Hospitals Association, revealed his model projected that 96 million Americans could become infected cases, of which 4.8 million could result in hospital admissions and 1.9 million of those “could require a stay in a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU), and approximately half of them would need a ventilator“.  The “slide says hospitals should prepare for an impact to the system that’s 10 times greater than a severe flu season.”

But in the same presentation Lawler showed clearly that the death rate in China was significantly higher in 80+ years than other age brackets and pre-existing conditions were associated with death. [3]

Also in February 2020  the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins released a February report [no archive for Feb] which estimated the United States “has about 160,000 ventilators ready for use in hospitals, with another 8,900 held in a national reserve”, enough for day-today operational capabilities but not for a severe pandemic.  A shortage of skilled respiratory therapists is also noted. [2]

On March 13, 2020 the World Health Organisation released [2, 3] their updated interim guidance for “Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) when COVID-19 disease is suspected”, which recommended “mechanical ventilators as an early intervention” based on China’s experience. [1]  And thus begins the ventilator panic.

February 27

Daszak: COVID-19 is “Disease X”

On February 27, 2020, Peter Daszak wrote an Opinion in New York Time stating COVID-19 is Disease X which they’ve been telling us was coming and that CEPI was preparing for with fast, new vaccine platforms.

Peter Daszak heads up EcoHealth Alliance and funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan labs, the very labs he helped investigate as potential origin of SARS-CoV-2.

But this pandemic “will challenge us in new ways, as people try to evade quarantines, and misinformation campaigns and conspiracy theorists ply their trade in open democracies.”  More to the point he states “the really big picture: Pandemics are on the rise, and we need to contain the process that drives them, not just the individual diseases.”  “Plagues are not only part of our culture; they are caused by it.”

“These spillovers are increasing exponentially” he stats, [that is the  “Eco” and “Health” connection] because “our ecological footprint brings us closer to wildlife in remote areas and the wildlife trade brings these animals into urban centers” aka the wet market in China!

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