NEW: After queries from @washingtonpost, WHO has corrected 'unintended errors' in the coronavirus origins report. Unclear if changes will shape our understanding of the early days in Wuhan. But corrections hurt credibility of search. w/ @evadou 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/covid-wuhan-outbreak-who/2021/07/15/51e7e8a6-e2c6-11eb-88c5-4fd6382c47cb_story.html …
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WHO spox said the agency cannot comment on what the Wuhan government announced last year, but the question of where the first-known patient lived relative to the river was not relevant to competing hypotheses about the origin of the virus. 4/
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Issue of where the Dec. 8 case lived not important, spox told us because “the current first known patient is most probably not the first case.” He also said mistakes in the report were due to “editing errors" and did not affect “the data analysis process, nor the conclusions. 5/
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“We need more explanation about what the source of the error and the information was,” said
@LawrenceGostin “Who made the errors? Was it China, was it the team, was it WHO itself?... This does feed into public distrust of the integrity and rigor of the origins investigation.” 6/Show this thread -
“Certainly analysis of the earliest cases is a key aspect of the report,” he said. “Therefore, it would be helpful for as much as possible of the underlying data to be made publicly available,” said
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“It raises questions about what happened, how did this mistake get made on something of such critical importance?” said
@D_P_Fidler “Unfortunately, you get questions on top of questions on top of questions.” 8/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/covid-wuhan-outbreak-who/2021/07/15/51e7e8a6-e2c6-11eb-88c5-4fd6382c47cb_story.html …Show this thread
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Isn't it a forgone tale that the China knew well before December 2019? Wuhan was already a ghost town in October 2019 when the city hosted the World Military Games; hundreds of athletes fell ill, were quarantined, and sent home.
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Not sure how we wouldn't have heard about this October ghost town from the probably hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Wuhan who talk to their relatives and friends in Wuhan regularly. I know several people from Wuhan just by living in a major metro area in the U.S.
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How do the earlier European cases factor into this discussion though? We have a number of indicators showing that the virus was present in Italy and France from November at the latest - arguably even before September 2019
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Thanks for your work on tbis story … how is it that WaPo is more on top of this than the worlds foremost healthcare authority???
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