For context, the WHO report officially has first known case (as told to them by China) as December 8th, and genome being sequenced as December 31st. Dr. Lipkin being told of an *outbreak* of interest or concern in Wuhan on December 15th is a pretty big deal.
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Yeah the ProMed email was out by then. *December 15* 2019 as a known outbreak of concern that virologists outside China are hearing about is a whole different timeline.https://twitter.com/MoffattLawrence/status/1432871620880781312 …
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Folks. If anyone in China knew this was an outbreak of concern as early as on December 15 enough to tell Western virologists so, everyone needs to re-report everything about the origin timeline. Official timeline—including retrospective search—has no outbreak whatsoever by then. https://twitter.com/blackboxme/status/1432872968103866375 …pic.twitter.com/vokjiG6ojR
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Could “certain communities” please tell us more, and will reporters kindly develop some curiosity about this? This date shift is a really big deal. Anyone who thinks we knew by then is misremembering. Rumors: last days of December. Public email about outbreak: December 31.https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1432875764895133710 …
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I’ll add this here, and the still unexplained discrepancies between the early scientific papers in Jan-Mar 2020 and the later WHO report. The remarkable dearth of good reporting (not the “lab was where the viruses are” type embarrassments!) is so baffling.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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And the discrepancies noted here. We simply do not have a clear and consistent timeline of the December 2019 cases that fits the known facts and reports and makes sense. Remarkable since so little is known to begin with!https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1432903935312818178 …
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Hard to square the official timeline with the known facts including, possibly now, there was enough to notice by December 15th—in a city of eleven million—that Chinese scientists told their Western colleagues… Where, then, are the cases? See official timeline in the WHO report.pic.twitter.com/YB9kpGBYfd
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Sorry messed up threading. Here’s a confirmation that this is what Dr. Lipkin and others had been saying all along. (Bafflingly ignored?). So where are these *known* cases? Total different timeline of known events than official timeline. *Known* contemporaneously is a big deal.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1433056719731576837 …
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Others confirm timeline of contemporaneously *known* cases and news of “new disease” being known and circulated by mid-December. This all contradicts so much of what we’ve been told about what got *known* when by whom.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1433061643219574788 …
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Just adding to thread. Again note the key difference: not that there are unknown earlier cases (never disputed, the usual) but that there were enough known ones, and enough work on this, that by mid-December that Chinese scientists noticed and alerted colleagues to “new disease.”https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1433062966077886464 …
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