In the Beginning..
September 1943, the US Army created a secret biowarfare program,“Operation Capricious,” against insect pests enemy nations might use on America, under the direction of George W. Merck, president of Merck & Co. The program stockpiled bacillus anthracis (anthrax), clostridium botulinum (botulism), and other deadly bacteria until President Truman operationalized its use on North Korea and China in 1951, where it proved ineffectual.
March 15, 1976 President Ford authorized an immunization program after an outbreak of Swine Flu A. The pharmaceutical companies demanded guaranteed profits and legal indemnity, but the vaccine triggered Guillain-Barré syndrome in vaccinated patients and the program was abandoned.
March 18, 2008, media implied that former government scientist, Dr. Steven Hatfill, had released an anthrax strain developed by the US Army. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote, “I had been told soon after Sept. 11 to secure Cipro, the antidote to anthrax. The tip came in a roundabout way from a high government official. I was carrying Cipro way before most people had ever heard of it.”
June, 2009: H1N1, Swine Flu, a previously unseen virus with a combination of influenza genes in animals or people, spread quickly from the US across the world, killing 284,000. Sadly, Glaxo Smith Kline’s H1N1 vaccine, Pandemrix, caused narcolepsy and cataplexy–incurable, lifelong conditions requiring extensive medication–in thousands of children. H1N1 still circulates as a seasonal flu, still causing hospitalizations and deaths.
2015, the determination of hundreds of US biosafety labs working with dangerous pathogens to keep their safety records secret stirred nationwide controversy. Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate; Baric lab: Circulating bat Coronaviruses; New SARS-like Virus Can Jump Directly From Bats to Humans, No Treatment Available.
2016: Researchers began issuing public warnings about “SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence”.
2018: H7N4 bird flu sickened 1,600 Chinese and killed 600 of them. The White House then dissolved the US Pandemic Response Team.
2019
May 2: The chemical and biological defense unit of USA Defense Fort Detrick, MD, bid to develop SARS and MERS virus detectors.
June 14. The CDC finds the US Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, MD, non-compliant with its pathogen control agreement.
June 30. Unidentified pneumonia in Springfield, VA nursing home kills two and sickens dozens.
July 9. White House withdraws the CDC’s epidemiologist embedded with China’s CCDC.
July 12: Three dead, 54 sickened in respiratory outbreak at Springfield, VA care home, one hour from Fort Detrick. Since respiratory illness usually spreads in winter, officials can neither explain the number of cases nor its seasonality.
Jul 14. Chinese researcher escorted from Canadian infectious disease lab by RCMP for sending biological samples to China.
July 17. Still-unexplained pneumonia epidemic reported at a Burke, VA nursing home, one hour from Fort Detrick, MD.
Jul. 19. CDC shuts down Ft. Detrick Lab, MD, where a senior scientist describes an atmosphere of “fear and mistrust.”
July 26. VA State stops all nursing home collective activities, screens residents, and mandates cleanliness measures to prevent the spread of pneumonia epidemic.
August 4. First case of EVALI (vaping) reported to CDC. Shortness of breath, pain in breathing, cough, fever, chills, nausea, weight loss, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, ground glass lung CT scan. 2,807 EVALI cases and 68 deaths recorded by Feb 18, 2020. No cases reported outside the US.
October 3. Doctors studying EVALI lung tissue rule out vaping, deepening the mystery over the cause of uniquely American illness. US scientists refuse to share alveolar lavage samples with colleagues abroad.
October 3. US Army team arrives in Wuhan for Military Games.
Oct. 18. CIA Deputy Director participates in Event 201 exercise modeling a fictional Coronavirus pandemic.
November 12. A couple from Inner Mongolia is admitted to Beijing hospital with pneumonic plague. Says physician Li Jifeng: “I am very familiar with diagnosing and treating the majority of respiratory diseases but I could not figure out what pathogen caused this pneumonia.”
Nov. 15. CDC advertises for quarantine managers in all major cities:
December. 5. FBI arrests Chinese medical researcher taking biological samples to China. His labmates succeeded in taking specimens to Beijing.
December 12. Moderna transfers potential Coronavirus vaccine candidates to the University of North Carolina, nineteen days prior to the official emergence of Covid-19 pandemic. The transfer was signed by Ralph Baric, PhD, and Jacqueline Quay, UNC Chapel Hill.
Dec 17. South Korean Coronavirus exercise was ‘blind luck’: a hypothetical South Korean family contracts pneumonia after a trip to China, where cases of an unidentified disease had arisen. It quickly spreads to colleagues and medical workers. Experts develop tests, algorithms to find the pathogen and its origin.
Dec. 17. Oxford University and the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center start a Phase I clinical trial of a MERS vaccine candidate using the ChAdOx1 platform they later used for COVID-19. It was so successful that their 1090 person Phase I/II COVID-19 trial only used one dose, instead of three.
Dec 27. Wuhan’s Dr. Zhang Jixian detects & reports suspicious cases of a ‘pneumonia of unknown origin’ to CCDC. Three more patients arrive, all related to Huanan Seafood Market.
Dec. 30. Wuhan Municipal Health Committee issues notice of an unknown viral illness.
Dec 31. A team from Beijing investigates, informs the WHO of “cases of pneumonia unknown etiology.” Since no medical worker was infected, they find no evidence of human-to-human transmission, and verify this on January 4. Wuhan announces the virus on CCTV and CGTN.
2020
Jan. 1. Huanan Seafood market shut down.
January 2. WHO incident management system activated across WHO country office, regional office, and headquarters.
Jan. 3. Dr. Gao Fu, head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), phones the CDC’s Dr. Robert Redfield to warn him of the virus.
Jan. 3. China reports 44 suspected patients with the mystery pneumonia, classifies it as highly pathogenic, orders all labs without high pathogen licenses to destroy or transfer their samples to secure labs.
January 4. WHO reports that Chinese authorities had informed it of “a cluster of pneumonia cases, with no deaths, in Wuhan”.
January 5, WHO: “There is limited information to determine the overall risk of this reported cluster of pneumonia of unknown etiology. The symptoms reported among the patients are common to several respiratory diseases, and pneumonia is common in the winter season; however, the occurrence of 44 cases of pneumonia requiring hospitalization clustered in space and time should be handled prudently.”
Jan 8 ‘pneumonia of unknown etiology’ is identified as a novel Coronavirus.
Jan. 9. Chinese labs begin genetic sequencing of the virus. China reports the death of an infected 61-year-old male in Wuhan with several underlying medical condition
Jan 9. CDC designates the first known person to die with COVID-19.
Jan 11. China reports its first Covid death.
Jan 11. Beijing uploads the genetic sequence of the Coronavirus to an international database and distributes preliminary test kits in Wuhan.
Jan 13. Germany develops a Covid test and protocol.
Jan 17. WHO adopts refined version of German test.
Jan 15. Wuhan Health Commission: “Although significant evidence confirming human-to-human transmission has yet to be found, the possibility cannot be ruled out.”
Jan 16. President Trump evacuates Americans from Wuhan.
Jan 18. US HHS begins six-month Crimson Contagion scenario of a respiratory virus pandemic that begins in China and quickly spreads around the world.
January 20. Respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan announces first verified human-to-human transmission.
January 21. China’s National Health Commission reports that the novel Coronavirus is a Class B infectious disease and that Class A methods of prevention must be adopted. Chinese publish the first Covid paper, A Novel Coronavirus Genome Identified in a Cluster of Pneumonia Cases. Wuhan, China 2019-2020.
Jan 20-21. WHO Field Team Visits Wuhan. "We were at the hospital where the first patient was identified in the last week of December, 2019. We met with staff there, and with one of the earliest known patients". Team leader Peter Ben Embarek calls the visit "very informative."
January 22. Wuhan native Scott Liu, 56, caught the last commercial flight from Wuhan to New York.
January 23. Cordon sanitaire around Wuhan. China suspends flights after 571 confirmed cases and 17 fatalities, builds a 1,000-bed hospital in 48 hours.
Jan. 24. Following private briefings on COVID-19, five US senators sell major stock holdings before markets fall.
Jan. 24. LA Times: “China boasts of ‘people’s war’ against Coronavirus, but Wuhan residents see shoddy propaganda”. Slate: “Many of China’s actions to date are overly aggressive and ineffective in quelling the outbreak.”
Jan. 26 – The Lancet publishes first clinical cases: “No epidemiological link was found between the first patient and later cases. Their data also show that, in total, 13 of the 41 cases had no link to the seafood marketplace". Daniel Lucey, infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University, “If the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace.”
Jan. 27. WHO's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns against “unnecessarily interfering with international travel and trade” in trying to halt the spread of Coronavirus. China bans citizens from reserving overseas tours.
Jan 29. WHO rejects accusations that China was responsible for the global spread of COVID-19: “[China’s] actions helped prevent the spread of Coronavirus to other countries.”
Jan. 30: With 82 cases outside China and zero deaths, WHO declares Covid-19 a global health emergency.
Jan. 30. US State and Federal officials refuse permission for U. Washington infectious disease expert to use ongoing flu tests to monitor for Coronavirus.
Jan. 30. NYT: “The fallout from the virus in China will accelerate the return of jobs to North America, with millions at the time placed under lockdown in Wuhan and elsewhere”. The Guardian: “Coronavirus deals China's economy a bigger blow than global financial crisis”.
Feb. 3. US CDC rejects WHO tests, ships its own test kits.
Feb 4. 57 personnel arrive at a Nebraska military base from Wuhan. Infectious disease specialist Dr. James Lawler asks to test them. The CDC refuses, demands he discontinue all contact with the travelers for research purposes.
Feb. 15. CDC recalls its flawed test kits.
February 20. A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019. By the China Novel Coronavirus Investigating and Research Team. NEJM 2020.
Feb. 25. Against CDC instructions, UW’s Dr. Chu gets Covid-19 test result dating from January 28. By then, the virus had contributed to two deaths and would soon kill twenty more. “It must have been here this entire time. It’s just everywhere already,” Dr. Chu recalls.
March 4. US ignores international investigators’ repeated requests for EVALI (vaping) postmortem lung tissue samples.
March 9. The White House orders federal health officials to treat top-level Coronavirus meetings as classified, hampering contagion response.
Mar. 11. US tests 5,000 people suspected of Covid-19 infection.
Mar 12. White House classifies reports of infections, quarantines, and travel restrictions. Moves discussions to Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility, SCIF. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield testifies that some earlier fatalities attributed to flu ‘have been attributed to C-19 after post-mortem analysis,’ refuses to give dates.
March 12. Chinese FM spokesman Zhao Lijian: “When did patient zero begin in the US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be the US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make your data public! The US owes the world an explanation”.
March 15. Santa Clara, CA, reports 114 infections. 52 had no travel or contact with known cases, indicating local acquisition.
March 17. American, British, and Australian virologists: “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible…. Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus”.
March 18. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vows to prevent Iran from purchasing medicines and ventilators. US sanctions on Venezuela increase the cost of tests 300%.
March 19. US sees sharpest increase in deaths and new infections per day of any country in the world. US doctors exhaust supply of N95 masks.
20 Mar. White House website petition, above.
March 20. US State Department cables all officials: “Chinese Communist Party officials in Wuhan and Beijing had a special responsibility to inform the Chinese people and the threat world since they were the first to learn of it. Instead, the... government hid news of the virus from its people for weeks, while suppressing information and punishing doctors and journalists who raised the alarm. The Party cared more about its reputation than its own people’s suffering”. Says one official, “These talking points are all anyone is really talking about right now. Everything is about China. We’re being told to try and get this messaging out in any way possible, including press conferences and television appearances.”
Mar 21. Oxford University's Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Disease Group says Covid-19 reached the UK no later than mid-January and may have infected half the population by March 21.
March 24. Covid samples taken from Italian patients in Sept-Nov. 2019 prove genetically distinct from China’s strain. Prof. Massimo Galli, at the University of Milan, describes ‘a very strange pneumonia” circulating in Europe in 2019.
April 16. Peter Daszak, disease ecologist, "I’ve been working with that [Wuhan] lab for 15 years. And the samples were collected by me and others in collaboration with our Chinese colleagues; they’re some of the world’s best scientists. There was no viral isolate in the lab and no cultured virus that’s anything related to SARS Coronavirus 2. So it’s just not possible."
April 17. Chris Cuomo: “Cristina believes that at least two of our kids had it in the last few months. It’s atypically long-duration sinus, fever, lethargy. I think we’re going to learn that Coronavirus has been in this country since October. How many people do you hear saying, ‘I think I had it, I had this and this, I lost my sense of smell and this and that, but I never got tested’?”.
May 5. Brazilian virologists find antibody samples from November 2019: “Our results show that SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating in Brazil since late November 2019”. The tests were repeated in three laboratories independently, with internal controls and negative controls.
June 17. Spanish virologists find traces of C-19 in Barcelona wastewater from March 2019: “The levels of SARS-CoV-2 were low, but positive,” said research leader Albert Bosch.
June 20. French virologists find SARS-CoV-2 was spreading in France in December 2019. “Early community spreading changes our knowledge of the COVID-19 epidemic”.
Nov. 16. Italian Researchers find Coronavirus in Italy from September, 2019. “Traces of SARS-Cov-2 have been found in samples of waste water taken in Milan and Turin between September 2019 and March 2020”.
Nov. 30. CDC researchers find high levels of Covid-19 antibodies in archived Red Cross blood samples throughout the USA from Dec. 2019.
Dec. 1. Bloomberg: “COVID-19 was silently infecting Americans before first cases emerged in Wuhan: CDC study. Coronavirus was present in the U.S. weeks earlier than scientists and public health officials previously thought, raising questions about the pandemic’s origin”.
2021
January, 2021. US monthly Covid deaths peak at 95,000. MIT says 133,000.
January 1. “Our results demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 was circulating in northern Italy at the end of 2019. Moreover, it was circulating in different geographic regions simultaneously, which changes our previous understanding of the geographical circulation of the virus in Italy.”
Feb. 25. “Analyzing Covid genomes using k-mer natural vector method, we conclude that the virus likely already existed in France, India, Netherlands, England, and the US before the Wuhan outbreak”.
Mar. 30. Joint WHO-China Report on Jan.-Feb. China visit: “Researchers reviewed 76,000 clinical records from October to November 2019, in which were 92 possible cases of Covid-19. 67 of those had no signs of infection based on antibody tests done a year later, and all 92 were ultimately ruled out based on the clinical criteria for Covid-19”.
May 4. An evolutionary portrait of the progenitor SARS-CoV-2 and its dominant offshoots.
June 1. WHO sends thirty Italian Covid biological samples from 2019 to Rotterdam’s Erasmus University laboratory for re-testing.
June 3. WHO: search for Covid’s origins "poisoned by politics”.
June 5. European Medicines Agency reports 13,867 deaths and 1,354,336 serious injuries following injections of MRNA Moderna (CX-024414), MRNA Vaccine Pfizer-Biontech, AstraZeneca Vaccines, Vaccine Janssen (AD26.COV2.S).
June 8. Erasmus University lab confirms that Italian samples from 2019 ‘are very similar to what (Italy's National Cancer Institute) discovered. The combined results made a convincing case that the Coronavirus or a similar virus was circulating in Italy months before the country's first officially recorded case’.
June 10. UK Government reports 1,295 deaths and 922,596 injuries recorded following the experimental COVID injections: AstraZeneca: 863 deaths and 717,250 injuries; Pfizer- BioNTech: 406 deaths and 193,768 injuries; Moderna: 3 deaths and 9243 injuries. (Source); Unspecified COVID-19 injections: 22 deaths and 2335 injuries. (Source) Italy halted use of AstraZeneca injections for people under the age of 60, following the death of a teenager who died from blood clots.
June 11. CDC lists 329,02 injuries following COVID-19 shots: 5,888 deaths, 4,583, permanent disabilities, 5,884 life-threatening, 43,892 ER visits, and 19,597 hospitalizations.
June 13. Europe's drug regulator suggests countries stop using AstraZeneca Coronavirus vaccine for all age groups amid fears of rare blood clots.
June 19. Chief Scientist of the European Precision Research Institute in France says her team found the outbreak in France before 2020 was caused by an indigenous virus, disproving the connection with Wuhan. French government silenced her and shun the institute.
June 22, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded a thorough investigation of the source of the epidemic in the United States; the inadequate response to the epidemic, and an investigation into safety at Fort Detrick and other labs.
June 23. NIH study finds COVID-19 prevalence far exceeded early pandemic cases. Researchers estimate nearly 17 million undiagnosed cases in the U.S. by mid-July 2020 and that there were 4.8 undiagnosed cases for every diagnosed COVID-19 case in this time frame, representing an additional 16.8 million cases by July alone.
July 12. The WHO team studying the origins of the virus asks to investigate the case of a 25-year-old Milan resident who, in November 2019, visited a hospital with a sore throat and skin lesions: symptoms of a disease that wouldn’t be discovered in Wuhan in China for another month. Her skin sample yielded traces of Covid-19.
August 2. One-third of white-tailed deer in the NE USA have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, the first detection of widespread exposure to the virus in wild animals.
September 2. "Estimated SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence increased from [1.4% in December, 2019] to 3.5% in July 2020 to 20.2% for infection-induced antibodies and 83.3% for combined infection- and vaccine-induced antibodies in May 2021." JAMA.
Sep. 22. Covid-19 appeared in the US before Wuhan, scientists claim: “The experimental results indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States starts to spread around September 2019 with a high confidence probability.. The spread of COVID-19 in China likely began in late December 2019.
2022
4 May, 2022: The number of serious complications after vaccinations against Sars-CoV-2 is possibly 40 times higher than officially stated by the Paul Ehrlich Institute. This is one of the interim results of a long-term observational study by Berlin Charité. The head of the study, Professor Harald Matthes, [stated]: ‘In light of around half a million cases with serious side effects after Covid vaccinations in Germany, we doctors have to take action.’ Matthes is now calling for contact points for those affected. ‘We have to offer treatment, and discuss this openly at conferences and in public without being considered anti-vaccination,’ Matthes said.” Berliner Zeitung