Timeline of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The purpose of this page is to have a living document of the history of various health officials and governments and others prior to (where relevant) and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The spine of this began with the use of Epoch Time's COVID-19 Outbreak and Coverup. The goal of course is to provide more than just what they already have but expand it further with pages that express more detail about each event and add more where they may have missed something or exclude some that may be less relevant.
1924
May 1924
The Rockefeller Foundation, today a member of the World Economic Forum1) gives a $650,000 grant and/or a $1.2 million donation to the University of Toronto to found the University of Toronto School of Hygiene.2) 3)
1956
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is founded in 1956 as the Wuhan Microbiology Laboratory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1961
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (then operating as the Wuhan Microbiology Laboratory) changes its name to the South China Institute of Microbiology.
1962
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (operating as the South China Institute of Microbiology) changes its name back to the original Wuhan Microbiology Laboratory.
1970
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (operating as the Wuhan Microbiology Laboratory) changes its name to the Microbiology Institute of Hubei Province.
1978
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (operating as the Microbiology Institute of Hubei Province) changes its name to the current one.4)
1997
September 1997
Ted Turner donates $1 billion towards the creation of the United Nations Foundation.5)
2001
June 2001
June 22-23
A bioterrorism exercise called “Dark Winter” is run at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, DC by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS, ANSER and the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.6)
The exercise simulated a bioweapon attack on the United States using an aerosolized smallpox, and contained elements that seem to echo in the forthcoming 9/11 and Amerithrax terrorist attacks.7)
September 2001
September 11
September 18
One week after 9/11, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two U.S. Senators, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, killing 5 and infecting 17 others.8) A lengthy and expensive investigation ensued, which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) codenamed “Amerithrax”.9)
2002
May 2002
In May 2002, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation purchases stock in Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Pfizer.10)
2003
Another SARS outbreak in 2003 in Singapore is traced back to containment facility in Beijing, China called the Chinese Institute of Virology.11) 12) 13)
2004
Spring 2004
A coronavirus reservoir is discovered in horseshoe bats located in Yunnan province14)15)16)17) by director Shi Zheng-li at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
On September 14, 2005, the European Union signs Decree No. 2005-1181 that authorises the creation of a biosafety level 4 laboratory for the WIV, despite repeated warnings from the Americans about the dangers of such a lab being weaponised.18) The terms of the deal were gradually eroded by China, who replaced the French design firm with IPPR Engineering International, suspected by Western intelligence services to be controlled by the PLA. The deal was supported and led by Alain Mérieux, billionaire chairman of Institut Mérieux, which was founded by his grandfather Marcel Mérieux in 1897,19) but even he quit in frustration. “It’s a very Chinese operation,” he declared. “It’s entirely theirs, even though it was developed with technical assistance from France.”20) The original deal had up to fifty French scientists working at the new lab, partly to conduct research and partly to oversee safety procedures; in the event, only one token French scientist ever set foot inside the building.
2005
Shi’s team's work begins in earnest on horseshoe bats from Shitou Cave in the Yunnan Province.
2006
The avian flu outbreak of 2006 never came to much, in and of itself. However, it helped to usher in some of the thinking and language we are seeing today. It may be surprising to find that the strategy of lockdowns and social distancing have such a long history; it may not be surprising at all to learn that these did not, in fact, come from epidemiologists or doctors, but rather from computer modellers and politicians.21)
An early paper called 'Targeted Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza', that is still available on the CDC site22), shows the two lead authors as Robert J. Glass and Laura M. Glass. This is not, as one might suspect, a husband and wife team, but rather a father and daughter team; the entire paper is based on a computer simulation that Laura build for a high school project when she was 15 years old. In 2020, she refused to be interviewed by the Albuquerque Journal, but they state that,
“Laura, with some guidance from her dad, devised a computer simulation that showed how people – family members, co-workers, students in schools, people in social situations – interact. What she discovered was that school kids come in contact with about 140 people a day, more than any other group. Based on that finding, her program showed that in a hypothetical town of 10,000 people, 5,000 would be infected during a pandemic if no measures were taken, but only 500 would be infected if the schools were closed.” 23)
So while daughter was a high school student at the time, father Robert was a complex-systems analyst with Sandia National Laboratories. He had no medical training, much less an expertise in immunology or epidemiology.24)
The paper triggered a rather thorough refutation of the entire lockdown model, also published in 2006, from which the conclusion reads,
“Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted. Strong political and public health leadership to provide reassurance and to ensure that needed medical care services are provided are critical elements. If either is seen to be less than optimal, a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.” 25)
2007
February 2007
A paper is published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called 'Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance: Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation in the United States — Early, Targeted, Layered Use of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions'26) that arguably concludes against lockdowns.
December 2007
In 2007 a paper is published in the Journal of Virology on the possibilities of manipulating bat coronaviruses to infect humans using HIV.27)
2008
September 2008
Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance Inc. is given its first grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.28)29)30)
2009
PREDICT is established by the USAID U.S. Agency for International Development to survey animal viruses with the potential of cross-species infection to humans, headed by Dennis Carroll.
“PREDICT, a project of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program, was initiated in 2009 to strengthen global capacity for detection and discovery of zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential. Those include coronaviruses, the family to which SARS and MERS belong; paramyxoviruses, like Nipah virus; influenza viruses; and filoviruses, like the ebolavirus.”31)
Predict Partners - UC Davis Veterinary Medicine - One Health Institute, EcoHealth Alliance, Smithsonian Institution, METABIOTA and WCS.
It is worth noting that the decade of funding for PREDICT-2 came to an end just a few weeks before the SARS-Cov2 outbreak began, leaving “the closely connected Global Virome Project and a much broader coalition of multidisciplinary research in the lurch”.32)
June 2009
A diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks includes talking points for France by Hilary Clinton's State Department in preparation for the 2009 Australia Group (AG) plenary session in Paris, September 21-25. The cable confirms that France is assisting the Wuhan Institute of Virology with setting up their biosafety Level 4 lab. There are concerns about the possibility of the lab being used for bioweapons research, especially since the project overtly has a part-civilian, part-Chinese military purpose.
“The U.S. believes participants would benefit from hearing about your experiences assisting China in setting up a Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology from the export control and intangible technology transfer perspectives.”33)
In the same month, the WHO announces the start of a swine flu pandemic.34) Less than a year later, it was called “one of the greatest medical scandals of the century” by a leading healthcare expert in Brussels, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg,35) who was the Chairman of the Council of Europe's Health Committee at the time (and a very early opponent of the mRNA Covid interventions36)). He accused major pharmaceutical firms of intentionally creating an atmosphere of panic, and unduly influencing the decisions made by the World Health Organization, especially in lowering the threshold for declaring a pandemic. (If this is sounding eerily familiar to you, you are not alone.) The “experts” predicted 64,000 deaths in Britain alone; ten months into the pandemic, 355 Britons had died. It appears that the threat was “vastly exaggerated” by profit-seeking Big Pharma.
December 2009
December 9
2010
Construction begins of the new Level 4 lab on the Wuhan site, with French expertise and under the guidance of French billionaire businessman Alain Mérieux.37)38)
June 2010
Shi publishes 'Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) proteins of different bat species confer variable susceptibility to SARS-CoV entry' in 2010 which details experiments to that effect.39)
2011
December 2011
Gary Nabel, Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci write A Flu Virus Risk Worth Taking about the creation of manmade viruses that can be more dangerous than those found in nature.40)
2012
A bat virus causes another epidemic and is dubbed Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Virologist Tian Junhua41) collects bats for study at the Wuhan Center Disease Control and has apparently captured over 10,000 of them during the course of his field work. A 7-minute video featuring Tian Junhua shows him collecting bat samples from caves in Hubei Province; he's shown wearing boots, disposable overalls and gloves, a cloth mask and goggles, though we also see him with his hood down and mask and goggles in his hand, while apparently still inside a cave.42)
Anthony Fauci reports to the Senate Homeland Security committee that the NIAID is funding experiments in which viruses are modified for aerosol transmission. (So says the Epoch Times; the entire original transcript needs checking.) 43)
January 2012
A piece focusing on work on the H5N1 virus appears in Nature called Call to censor flu studies draws fire which opens with the line: “I don’t like to scare people,” says microbiologist Paul Keim. “But the worst-case scenarios here are just enormous.”
Later…
“Critics say controversy over publication of mutant-H5N1 research highlights biosecurity weaknesses… Keim, who chairs the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), is reflecting on its unprecedented recommendation to censor two scientific papers describing how to make a more transmissible form of the H5N1 avian flu virus. Others complain, however, that the NSABB has done too little, too late, to protect the world from a potentially dangerous man-made pathogen.”44)
April 2012
In April, miners in the Mojiang County become ill with what could be described as COVID-19-like symptoms, two of whom die.45)
May 2012
Four of the initial survivors of Mojiang County are tested and found to have antibodies for a SARS-like virus and another of them dies, bringing the total number of deaths to three.
June 2012
A study funded by the NIAID publishes a paper called “Airborne Transmission of Influenza A/H5N1 Virus Between Ferrets” in the Journal of Science on the genetic modification of avian flu to make it airborne.46) It is likely this is one of the papers that some were calling to be censored, due to the potentially dangerous nature of the findings, some six months earlier.47)
July 2012
Anthony Fauci delivers a talk called “The Way Forward in Influenza Research” where he offers a defense of gain-of-function research and asserts its importance. In October it is published as a paper.48)
2013
Over the course of eight years, the DoD provides Daszak's Ecohealth Alliance with funds amounting to $39 million.
“Meticulous investigation of U.S. government databases reveals that Pentagon funding for the EcoHealth Alliance from 2013 to 2020, including contracts, grants and subcontracts, was just under $39 million. Most, $34.6 million, was from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency DTRA, which is a branch of the DOD which states it is tasked to “counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and improvised threat networks”. […] Most of the remaining money to EHA was from USAID (State Dept.), comprising at least $64,700,000. These two sources thus total over $103 million.”49)
A full breakdown of Federal Grants & Contracts is available.50)
February 2013
Edward Holmes and Tian Juan-hua publish “Phylogeny and Origins of Hantaviruses Harbored by Bats, Insectivores, and Rodents” in PLOS Pathogens.51) .
May 2013
A master thesis is published at Kunming Medical University on the virus that killed three men at the Moijang mine in 2012.52) The paper challenges the conclusion previously made by Shi Zhengli that bat coronaviruses are not contagious to humans.
July 2013
Due to the thesis done at Kunming Medical University, Shi Zhengli and her team focuses more on the Mojiang Mine and discover the virus named RaTG13.53) Samples of the Mojiang virus are sent back to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for analysis and storage. The virus is the closest known relative to SARS-COV-2, which causes COVID-19.
October 2013
The Galveston National Laboratory in Texas trains Chinese researches on biosafety Level 4 work, replacing France, prior to the startup of the Level 4 lab at Wuhan Institute of Virology.
October 30
Shi Zhengli, Peter Daszak, and others publish “Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor”, funded by NIAID, in which they claim to have isolated a live coronavirus from horseshoe bats. The virus is named WIV1 for Wuhan Institute of Virology 1.54)
2014
May 2014
The first documentation of the virus RaBTCoV/4991 appears in a thesis from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which may or may not be this. It mentions the infection of the six miners at Mojiang and the subsequent deaths of three of them.55)56)
Luigi Warren explored a theses that, “for unknown reasons, Shi Zhengli (famous “Bat Woman” of the Wuhan Institute of Virology) has obfuscated the connection between SARS-2’s nearest known relative, RaBtCoV/4991, aka RaTG13, and her own research, and has elided that she discovered this virus in 2013 while investigating a still-unexplained outbreak of fatal pneumonias in a bat-infested, disused mineshaft located in the Mojiang County of Yunnan Province”.57)58)
On May 27, 2014, EcoHealth Alliance is awarded $666,442 by the NIH for “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence”.59). The original PDF is here and here (just in case…).
A list of grants to EcoHealth Alliance 60) is also available as a PDF here.
June 2014
From an article in Nature called “Biosafety in the Balance”;
“The news last week of an accident involving live anthrax bacteria at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, is troubling. Some 84 workers were potentially exposed to the deadly Ames strain at three CDC labs. But the incident will cause much wider ripples: it highlights the risks of the current proliferation of biocontainment labs and work on dangerous pathogens. If an accident can happen at the CDC, then it can happen anywhere. A CDC analysis in 2012 reported, for example, that there were 727 incidents of theft, loss or release of Select Agents and Toxins in the United States between 2004 and 2010, resulting in 11 laboratory-acquired infections and no secondary transmission”.61)
October 2014
October 17
The Obama administration announces a moratorium on gain-of-function research. NIH Director Francis Collins disagrees with the decision and says that “these studies, however, also entail biosafety and biosecurity risks, which need to be understood better”.
“At a public meeting of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) in Bethesda, Maryland, on 22 October, researchers complained that development of seasonal influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs might be hampered by the move. Some also made the case for continuing controversial gain-of-function experiments similar to the ones published in 2012 by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, whose team modified avian flu viruses to be transmissible in ferrets. Such experiments demonstrate in principle how a bird virus could start spreading among humans. The moratorium, announced on 17 October by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, suspends new grants for gain-of-function research involving flu, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).”62)
2015
January 2015
The French certification firm, Technip,63) ends their collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology biosafety Level 4 lab project and refuses to provide the Chinese lab with “deadly viruses and antivirus suits” as requested.
Shi Zhengli and her team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology engage in gain-of-function work. This is documented in multiple articles published by the team. sourced needed
January 31
Construction of the Wuhan Institute of Virology biosafety Level 4 lab is completed in collaboration with the French government, at a reported cost of $44 million.64) The lab then enters a three-year period of bedding in before they start to use it fully in January 2018.
June 2015
June 19
Clinical trials are stopped for Tekmira's experimental Ebola drug TKM-Ebola due to safety concerns and lack of efficacy.65)
July 2015
July 20
Tekmira announces its name change to Arbutus Biopharma.66)
October 2015
A study is conducted on Shitou Cave horseshoe bats.67)
November 2015
November 9
Nature magazine publishes 'A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence', funded by NIAID.68)
A two-day global food crisis war game titled “Food Chain Reaction” begins in Washington, DC. Participants include the Albright Stonebridge Group, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation affiliate), Bloomberg, Cargill, Center for American Progress, Mars Incorporated, Thomson Reuters, the World Bank, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and several other key players in the future COVID-19 pandemic.69)
November 10
Day 2 of the Food Chain Reaction war game.
November 12
Nature magazine publishes “Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research” which warns of the risks posed by the gain-of-function research experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.70)
2016
February 2016
February 18
Shi Zhengli publishes an article in a Chinese journal in which she states that she obtained coronaviruses from the abandoned Mojiang mine, including RaBtCoV/4991. She makes no mention of the miners who died due to an illness contracted from that mine.
March 2016
Peter Daszak's collaborator, Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, publishes “SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence”.71)
May 2016
Subordinates of NIAID director Anthony Fauci make known their concerns regarding their funding of potential gain-of-function research by EcoHealth Alliance at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. NIAID permitted EcoHealth to make their own determination as to whether or not their research constituted gain-of-function which, during this time, was supposed to have been suspended as per the Obama administration order.72)
June 2016
Gau Fu, Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, supervised a thesis, with the assistance of Edward Holmes, which acknowledges the deaths of the three miners of the Mojiang mine in April 2012 and confirms that the Wuhan Institute of Virology collected samples from the mine. source needed
July 2016
Yuan Zhirning73) of the Wuhan Institute of Virology asks NIAID for “disinfectants for decontamination of airtight suits and surface decontamination” for use at the Level 4 biosafety lab which had been open for 18 months. Yuan claims that the lab is “under operation without pathogens.”74)
Late 2016
Four pig farms 60 miles from the original SARS outbreak fall ill and 25,000 of them die. Researchers determine that the swine acute diarrhea syndrome comes from a virus that is 98% similar to the coronavirus found in horseshoe bats from nearby caves. source needed
2017
January 2017
Wuhan Institute of Virology's Biosafety level 4 lab is accredited by the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment.75)
January 9
Obama administration rescinds its October 2014 moratorium on gain-of-function research.
January 20
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease's chief representation in China, Chen, refers to China's CDC director Gao Fu as a “dear friend.” source needed
February 2017
February 14
Anthony Fauci delivers a keynote speech at Georgetown University, 'Pandemic Preparedness in the Next Administration', in which he says that during the next administration “there will be a surprise outbreak.”76)
February 23
The journal Nature publishes 'Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens', which raises concerns about the risks of research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology biosafety 4 lab.77)
April 2017
The Wuhan Institute of Virology publishes a thesis under the supervision of Shi Zhengli regarding experiments in which they were able to replace the S gene without leaving a trace on WIV1 coronavirus. source needed
April 7-9
Peter Daszak was on the panel Future of Infectious Disease Pandemics: From Ebola to Zika, and Beyond with Anthony Fauci (NIAID) and Anne Schuchat (CDC) at the 8th Annual CUGH Global Health Conference where he made mention of his research with Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Health and of its funding provided by NIAID.
May 2017
May 3
A chinese newspaper publishes an article on Tian's work including the 10,000 bats he collected from various locations for study at the Wuhan CDC, in which he admits to having collected the bats without taking safety precautions. source needed
October 2017
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security publishes the results of their war game exercise titled 'SPARS Pandemic Scenario' which details how a global pandemic in the future may likely play out.78)79)
This is 'Dark Winter'.80)
October 1
Peter Daszak emails Fauci about the bat coronavirus experiments being carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. source needed
October 26
NIAID representative in China, Chen, is able to visit the Wuhan lab, but is forbidden from taking any photos within the facility. source needed
November 2017
November 30
Shi Zhengli, Daszak and others publish 'Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus' in which they suggest a link between the 2003 SARS outbreak and the bats from Shitou cave.81)
World Bank COVID-19 Test Kits
COVID-19 Test kits (300215) imports by country in 201782)
Additional Product information: Diagnostic reagents based on immunological reactions
Category: COVID-19 Test kits/ Instruments, apparatus used in Diagnostic Testing
In 2017, Top importers of COVID-19 Test kits are European Union ($17,131,541.68K , 2,759,970 Kg), Germany ($8,731,545.89K , 3,015,010 Kg), United States ($7,927,894.38K , 2,627,050 Kg), United Kingdom ($6,291,366.96K , 1,062,590 Kg), Belgium ($5,914,764.97K , 2,074,820 Kg)In 2017, Top importers of COVID-19 Test kits are European Union ($17,131,541.68K , 2,759,970 Kg), Germany ($8,731,545.89K , 3,015,010 Kg), United States ($7,927,894.38K , 2,627,050 Kg), United Kingdom ($6,291,366.96K , 1,062,590 Kg), Belgium ($5,914,764.97K , 2,074,820 Kg) Wayback capture Sept 5, 2020 83)
2018
January - March 2018
Work begins inside the newly built Level 4 lab, following three years of trial operations, having “recently passed an assessment organized by the National Health and Family Planning Commission”.84)
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing sends diplomatic cables warning about the management and safety of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. From the Washington Post article, the January cable stated,
“During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they [diplomats] noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.“
The article goes on to say that the cables were warnings and a request for assistance from the United States.85)
February 2018
February 26
Chen Ping, NIAID representative in China, discovers that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was developing a new type of flu vaccine. source needed
March 2018
March 2
Shi, Daszak, and others publish 'Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China', in which they concluded,
“These results indicate that some SARSr-CoVs may have high potential to infect human cells, without the necessity for an intermediate host. However, to date, no evidence of direct transmission of SARSr-CoVs from bats to people has been reported.”86)
They neglect to mention experiments the WIV lab already performed to see if human cells could be infected within the lab.
March 27
In the spring EcoHealth Alliance submitted an application for gain-of-function research funding to Darpa titled Project DEFUSE: Defusing the Threat of Bat-borne Coronaviruses.87) It was later rejected.88) For more, see this document on project DEFUSE.
April 2018
April 4
A study called 'Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin' by Shi Zhengli and Daskak, funded by the NIAID, is published in which the researchers admit to the presence of live animals at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.89)
Daszak would deny later that live bats were kept at that facility.90)
July 2018
The 'Fauci files'91)92), a series of emails released as a result of an FOIA request, show links between Anthony Fauci, the NIH, and the Wellcome Trust in the UK, headed by Sir Jeremy Farrar.93)
Farrar has now published a memoir called 'Spike: The Virus v the People'94), in which he admits to being initially terrified that the virus may have come from the lab, but has since stuck to the idea that it emerged naturally. This was expressed in a letter to The Lancet that he co-authored (along with Daszak and others) in March 2020 95), and then doubles-down in a follow-up letter, also in The Lancet, in July, 2021.96)
November 2018
The Wuhan Institute of Virology biosafety level 4 laboratory officially opens under the direction of Yuan Zhiming.
December 2018
Dec 10
Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses is published by Shi Zheng-li and funded by NIAID. The study argues that SARS and MERS likely originated in bats. They also state that the presence of antibodies against the diseases in humans living near the caves of coronavirus infected bats suggests transmissibility to humans.
2019
January 2019
January 29
The US Director of National Intelligence issues an annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The assessment stated: “We assess that the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or largescale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support.”97)
February 2019
February 14
The Nuclear Threat Initiative, Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security, and the Center for Global Development host a pandemic war game in Munich, Germany, simulating “command, control, and coordination of an international response to an unusual and rapidly spreading biological event.”98) Others involved included Open Philanthropy, Global Affairs Canada Weapons Threat Reduction Program, representatives from the United Nations, World Health Organization, Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, and more.
A report was later published with the findings and recommendations, titled “A Spreading Plague”.
May 2019
A report appears called “Biosafety Level 4 Laboratory User Training Program, China”.99)
July 2019
Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng Due were escorted from Canada's only biosafety level 4 lab. The two had breached the lab's policy by making unauthorized trips to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and where they trained scientists and technicians at the biosafety level 4 lab in Wuhan.100)
August 2019
The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care publishes an updated version of the Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza (AHMPPI).101)
September 2019
September 3
Retrospectively tested blood samples in Italy contained Sars-CoV-2 antibodies.102)
September 12
The Wuhan Institute of Virology's public database of viral sequences was taken offline in the middle of the night. According to Pandemic Timeline,
“The database contained more than 22,000 entries consisting of sample and pathogen data collected from bats and mice. The database contained key information about each sample, including what type of animal it was collected from, where it was collected, whether the virus was successfully isolated, the type of virus collected, and its similarity to other known viruses.”103)
September 18
The WHO-linked Global Preparedness Monitoring Board104) issued a warning 105) about the preparedness of the world during a global pandemic. In the report, they state that “the world is not prepared for a fast-moving virulent respiratory pathogen pandemic.” GPM's membership includes Dr. George Gao of the China CDC and Dr. Chris Elias of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and more. Dr. Anthony Fauci was also a former co-chair member.
October 2019
October X
There is an increase in hospital traffic in Wuhan in early October. A Harvard Medical School study suggests this may have been due to a new coronavirus outbreak, which parts of China have become accustomed to. source needed
The October Surprise in Wuhan
October, 2019, saw the Wuhan World Military Games take place, at which a number of athletes and volunteers fell ill with a mystery coronavirus. This is just one of the instances cited and forensically examined in this 149-page report, titled 'The October Surprise in Wuhan' by Bostickson, Ghannam and Demanneof. Specifically, they consider the following “facts and claims”;
- Satellite data and traffic analysis of Wuhan Hospitals in autumn 2019.
- Social media search trend terms from the Baidu search engine.
- Reports of military athletes with Covid-19 like symptoms from multiple nations.
- Alleged correlation between number of returning military athletes and Covid-19 cases.
- Positive IgM and IgG antibody results from six Spanish military athletes.
- The alleged November warning by US intelligence to NATO and Israel.
- Claimed early knowledge by thermogenesis in November 2019.
- Claimed early knowledge by Scientists, Diplomats and Dissidents.
- Anecdotal reports from an interview with an African PhD student in Wuhan.
- Leaked and documented hospital data from Wuhan hospitals.
- Positive sera antibody results from Italy dating back to November 2019.
- The 9 November 2019 cases reported by CCDC with claimed “patient zero” on Nov 17th.
- Serological evidence and the WHO Investigation.
- Chinese Cover Up and Gag Orders.
- Early Mutation Analysis of SARS-COV-2 and phylogenetic evidence.
- SARS-COV-2 progenitor mutation analysis.
- Case number anomalies and possible manipulations in the official numbers.
- How the number of December 2019 cases support a cryptic spread in November 2019.
October 6-11 & 7-24
A 2020 article by NBC states, “The report — obtained by the London-based NBC News Verification Unit — says there was no cellphone activity in a high-security portion of the Wuhan Institute of Virology from Oct. 7 through Oct. 24, 2019, and that there may have been a “hazardous event” sometime between Oct. 6 and Oct. 11.
The report suggests that the pandemic began earlier than it was reported and supports the belief that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
October Mid-Month
Russel Westergard, the U.S. Consul General in Wuhan, issues a statement saying that “By mid-October 2019 the dedicated team at the U.S. Consulate in Wuhan knew that the city had been struck by what was thought to be an unusually vicious flu season.”
source needed tentative link https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/13299/20210917/who-ignored-deleted-virology-database-and-evidence-of-coronavirus-origin-report.htm
October 25
The PREDICT program, which had collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, shuts down.
November 2019
November 5
Retrospectively, serum samples in France showed Sars-CoV-2 antibodies.106)
November X
Three lab workers at the Wuhan Institute of Health are hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms. The discovery comes from an NBC report published May 23rd 2021.107)
In early November the U.S. National Center for Medical Intelligence warned that contagion was rapidly spreading in Wuhan, China.108)
November 17
First documented confirmed case of what is called COVID-19 caused by the virus SARS-COV2. It is reported on March 13, 2020, by the South China Morning Post. It was detected in a 55-year old man from Hubei Province.109)
November 27
SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected using RT-qPCR in human sewage in Florianopolis (Santa Catarina, Brazil).110)
December 2019
December 1
A report by The Lancet on March 13, 2020 suggests December 1 as the date of the first known case of Covid-19.111)
December 2
The Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention Bio-Safety Level 2 Lab moves to a new location 900 feet from the Huanan Seafood Market. The location is also nearby the hospital where a group of doctors was infected. According to a paper titled 'The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus' by Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao,112) the WCDC kept disease-ridden animals in its labs, including bats. The paper implied the possibility of SARS-COV2 having originated from a lab in Wuhan. The paper was later restricted.
December 5
An oropharyngeal swab specimen tested positive for Sars-Cov2. The specimen was from a 4-year-old boy who lived in the surrounding area of Milan, Italy. His first symptoms were reported on November 21. Symptoms include: cough, rhinitis, respiratory symptoms, vomiting, and measles-like rash.113)
December 8
The WHO, and others, said that December 8 is the date of the first known case of COVID-19.114)
December 9
Peter Daszack was interviewed at the Nipah Virus International Conference where he confirms that the Wuhan Institute of Virology experiments with coronaviruses, some of which “get into human cells in the lab.” The conference was a joint project between by the CEPI, WHO, NIH and Duke Medical School.115)
December 10
A video shows Tian Junhua collecting virus samples from bats in Hubei Province caves.
December 12
Wuhan Municipal Health Commission (WMHC) reported 27 cases of viral pneumonia with seven of them being critically ill.116)
December 18
Sars-CoV2 was detected in wastewater in Milan and Turin, Italy.117)
December Mid-Month
Wuhan City Officials close public schools to control the spread of a new respiratory disease at this time, according to Russell J. Westergard, deputy consular chief of ConGen Wuhan.118)
December 27
The full genome of SARS-COV2 was sequenced by the genomics company based out of Guangzhou, China. The CCP does not share this information for weeks.
North of Paris, a retrospective analysis of a nasal swab from a man hospitalized on Dec 27 tested positive for Sars-CoV-2. 119)
December 30
Dr. Li Weinliang is one of a few doctors who sounds the alarm on spread of covid-19 in Wuhan, China. He is punished by the CCP for the release of the information and dies weeks later. more sources needed
It is reported source needed that Shi Zhingli was informed fo a new coronavirus outbreak. Shi asserts, “such viruses were most likely to originate in South China, ” and that she, “never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in Central China.”
Samples collected from infected patients arrive at Wuhan Institute of Virology on this date.
December 31
Wuhan Municipal Health Commission releases a statement that there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the new pneumonia that is sweeping through the city.120)
An epidemiological alert is released by Wuhan local health authorities.121)
Taiwan warns the International Health Regulations that the new disease circulating is indeed transmitted from human to human.122) The information is also shared with the WHO who choose not to publish it on their platform.123) Taiwan also began monitoring incoming travellers from Wuhan.
Chinese authorities censor terms from social media that relate to the virus.124)
Peter Daszack begins a twitter thread that concludes with the claim that livestock is the likely origin of the novel outbreak in Wuhan, all while mentioning the work he did with Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.125)
2020
January 2020
Here is a very detailed pandemic timeline for January and February, 2020. Beware that it appears in reverse chronological order.
Early January
Chinese authorities form “an expert team of physicians, epidemiologists, virologists, and government officials.” in response to the December 31, 2019 alert according to a study in the lancet.126)
January 1
Dr. Li Wenliang was summoned by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau where he was accused of “spreading rumors.” Days later he signed a documenting pleading to misdemeanor charges for upsetting the public. Several others are also arrested on similar charges.127)
The Wuhan Seafood Market in Wuhan was shut down.128)
The WHO Representative in China wrote to the National Health Commission, offering WHO support and repeating the request for further information on the cluster of cases.129) WHO informed Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) partners about the cluster of pneumonia cases in the People’s Republic of China.
An anonymous employee at one of the genomics companies testing samples of the virus coming from patients in Wuhan received a phone call from the Hubei Provincial Health Commission telling them to stop testing samples and to destroy them.130)
January 2
The Wuhan Institute of Virology completed mapped the genome of the virus, but it is not announced to the public.131)
January 3
Chinese officials provide information to the WHO, “on the cluster of cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause identified in Wuhan.
The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission releases a statement132) in which they say, “So far, preliminary investigations have shown that no obvious evidence of human-to-human transmission has been found, and no medical personnel have been infected.” This comes at a time when it was known to have been circulating among the population of Wuhan via human-to-human contact.
The United States government is notified of a new SARS-like virus circulating in Wuhan. CDC Director Robert Redfield called Alex M. Azar II the secretary of health and human services to alert him of the news.
Thailand begins thermal scanning airline passengers from Wuhan to identify passengers sick with Covid-19.133)134)135)
January 4
The WHO sends a tweet saying that “China has reported to WHO a cluster of pneumonia cases - with no deaths - in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Investigations are underway to identify the cause of this illness.”136)
The head of the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Infection, Ho Pak-Leung, challenges the Chinese authorities assertion that the virus does not spread from person-to-person. Ho Pak-Leung says, “The city should implement the strictest possible monitoring system for a mystery new virtual pneumonia that has infected dozens of people on the mainland, as it is highly possible that the illness is spreading from human to human.”137)
January 5
Virologist Edward Holmes from the University of Sydney sequences the full genome of Covid-19.138)
The WHO posts a Disease Outbreak News item on their website titled Covid-19-China139)
January 7
The Wuhan Institute of Virology obtains the genomic sequence of COVID-19.
January 11
The Shanghai Public Health Center's Zhang Yongzen and his team publish the full sequence of Covid-19 on an open platform.140) Chinese authorities originally withheld the sequence which had been completed earlier by others teams.
China reports it's first confirmed death, a 61 year old man, of someone testing positive for Covid-19.141)
January 12
Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center laboratory is closed for “rectification.”142)
January 13
Thailand reports the first case outside of China. The 61-year old woman was admitted to a hospital on January 8, having just arrived in Bangkok as a tourist from Wuhan.143)
January 14
WHO posts a tweet citing Chinese authorities as saying there was no clear human-to-human transmission.144) This is an echo of Wuhan city health authorities statement, “A total of 763 close contacts have been tracked, 187 have been released from medical observation, and 576 are still under medical observation. Among close contacts, no related cases have been found.”145)
Kristian Andersen tweets praise of China's response to the virus. He has since deleted 5,000 tweets and then his account. source needed look for archived tweet
January MID-Month
Anthony Fauci donates Remdesivir samples to China for an experimental clinical trial to test its effectiveness against COVID-19. Remdesivir was developed by Fort Detrick scientists and the pharmaceutical company GILEAD using taxing payer dollars.146)147)
January 15
The United States Office of the Spokesperson releases a Fact Sheet: Activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology regarding the research at the WIV as a potential origin of SARS-CoV-2.148)
January 18
After it is known by health authorities that the new virus is transmitted human-to-human - yet tell WHO otherwise - Wuhan celebrates the Chinese New Year with a banquet gating of over 40,000 families.
January 20
The first confirmed case was reported in the USA. A 35-year-old man presented to an urgent care clinic January 19 in Snohomish County, Washington, with a 4-day history of cough and subjective fever.149)
January 21
The Wuhan Institute of Virology gives patients Remdesivir.
January 22
Canada’s Surgeon General, A.M.T. Downes, Major General, writes a letter titled ”Potential exposure to 2019 Novel Coronavirus during 7th military world games in October 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province China”, addressed to Canadian soldiers who attended the Military Games in Wuhan.150) It stated that the military was “not aware of any 2019 NCOV cases among CISM MWG participants,” and that they were “confident that the number of suspected 2019 NCOV cases as well as the number of countries reporting suspected cases will increase in the next 30 days. The increase in case count will continue to generate significant media attention and public concern particularly as travel peaks during the first week of February due to the Chinese New Year.”151)
January 23
Lockdown measures begin in Wuhan.
January 24
The Lancet published 'Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China' in which they find, that only “27 (66%) [of infected patients] of 41 patients had been exposed to Huanan seafood market.152)
January 30
The United States CDC reports the first case of perston-to-person transmission within the U.S.153)
The WHO makes the claim that person-to-person transmission outside of China has been limited.154) The organization also declares a global public health emergency due to the coronavirus outbreak.155) Dr. Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyesus (director of WHO) defends China's response by saying, “The speed with which China detected the outbreak, isolated the virus and sequenced the genome and shared it with the WHO and the world are very impressive.” When in fact China spent weeks downplaying concerns in-country and silenced discussion about the virus early on.
January 31
USA President Donald Trump issues a Chinese travel ban, “Proclamation on Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus,” which restricts entry to foreigners that were in China in the 14 days prior.156)
February 2020
Shi Zhengli proposed edits to the article No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2 that was released early in the pandemic. The reveal was made public by U.S. Right to Know which included details that pertained to gain-of-function research.
Botao Xiao, a researcher from the South China University of Technology and a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital,157) publishes a co-authored a paper on ResearchGate (that was quickly withdrawn)158) called “The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus”159) which comprehensively refutes the zoonotic origin story, concluding that;
The bats carrying CoV ZC45 were originally found in Yunnan or Zhejiang province, both of which were more than 900 kilometers away from the seafood market. Bats were normally found to live in caves and trees. But the seafood market is in a densely-populated district of Wuhan, a metropolitan [area] of ~15 million people. The probability was very low for the bats to fly to the market. 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.160)
The virus RaBtCoV/4991 obtained from the Mojiang mine by Shi and her team is renamed RaTG13.
February 1
In an email response to Anthony Fauci, Kristian Andersen writes, “I should mention that after discussions earlier today, Eddie, Bob, Mike, and myself all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.”
February 2
Dr. Francisco Duque III, Secretary of the Philippines Department of Health, announced that a 44-year-old man from Wuhan with a 2019-nCoV infection has died at a Manila hospital, marking the first such death outside of China. 161)
February 4
A paper is published in Cell Research162) titled, “Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro”.163) One of the authors of that notice was the “bat woman,” Shi Zhengli.
February 5
February 6
February 7
February 11
In a media briefing, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom announces “we now have a name for the disease: COVID-19.”164)
February 14
February 15
French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn reports an 80 year old Chinese tourist diagnosed with Covid-19 has died at Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris on Friday 14 February. He is believed to be the first official COVID-19 death outside of Asia.165)
February 16
Kirstian Andersen publishes "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" of which Edward Holmes is a co-author. The paper claims, “the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here.”
February 19
February 24
February 25
A Seattle lab uncovered Washington's coronavirus outbreak only after defying federal regulators
They held off for a couple of weeks, but on Feb. 25, Chu and her colleagues “began performing coronavirus tests, without government approval,” the Times reports. They found a positive case pretty quickly, and after discussing the ethics, they told state health officials, who confirmed the next day that a teenager who hadn't traveled abroad had COVID-19 — and the virus had likely been spreading undetected throughout the Seattle area for weeks. Later that day, the CDC and FDA told Chu and her colleagues to stop testing, then partially relented, and the lab found several more cases. On Monday night, they were ordered to stop testing again.166)
February 26
Marion Koopmans is interviewed on NOS Nieuws, a Netherlands public news service. In the Q&A format, she mentioned that coronaviruses were being manipulated in China. (I THINK THIS IS THE CORRECT SOURCE, BUT WE NEED SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS DUTCH TO VERIFY CONTENT).
February 28
Anthony Fauci, together with H. Clifford Lane and Robert R. Redfield, publishes an Editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine titled 'Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted'167) in which he writes, “the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza”. The authors also speculate, based on early studies, that the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. ”
March 2020
March 2 Over 800 doctors, organised by Yale, wrote to the White House, seeking to guide the US government in 'Achieving A Fair and Effective COVID-19 Response'168), explicits warning against taking extreme or draconian measures to control the virus.
March 3
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic at a briefing in Geneva. It's the first time the WHO has called an outbreak a pandemic since the H1N1 “swine flu” in 2009.
March 7
Scientific American publishes an article based on interviews with EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszag and Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology wherein the collaboration between Daszag and Shi is outlined, and Shi confesses she was initially fearful the virus responsible for CoVid-19 might have escaped from her lab.
March 9
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy imposes a national lockdown. It is believed to be the first nationwide lockdown.169)
March 11
At a media briefing, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.170)
March 12
In Spain, Sars-CoV-2 was detected in wastewater treatment samples (retrospectively) prior to the first confirmed cases there.171)
March 13
James M. Todaro, MD, and Gregory J. Rigano release a white paper on Google Docs called, 'An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus (COVID-19)'172) which found that chloroquine had a high level of effectiveness against Covid-19. On March 23, Google took it down, deeming it in violation of their Terms of Service.173)
March 16
In a briefing Trump announces the U.S. has “fifteen days to slow the spread” of CoVid 19.
Rossana Segreto asserts that RaBtCoV/4991 had been in Shi Zhengli's possession for nine years and is Sars-CoV-2's closest relative. Shi had concealed this by renaming it RaTg13 in her February 2020 paper (reference needed). In March, Rossana Segreto, Yuri Deigin, Alejandro Sousa, Kevin W McCairn, Dan Sirotkin, Karl Sirotkin, Jonathan J Couey, Daoyu Zhang and Adrian Jones - most of whom are members of DRASTIC - '[https://www.researchgate.net/journal/Environmental-Chemistry-Letters-1610-3661/ | publish]] an article in Environmental Chemistry Letters entitled “Should we discount the laboratory origin of COVID-19?”
March 17
Nature publishes “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which first appeared February 16, 2020 in support of the natural origins of the virus. (THE EPOCH TIMELINE STATES THAT ONE OF THE AUTHORS RETRACTED, CITING HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF CONCERN FOR WUHAN’S BIOSAFETY RECORD, BUT I COULD NOT FIND ANY REFERENCE OR SOURCE FOR THIS).
March 19
John P. A. Ioannidis publishes an editorial entitled 'Coronavirus disease 2019: The harms of exaggerated information and non-evidence-based measures', in which he warns against fake news, withdrawn research papers, exaggerated estimates and CFRs and extreme measures, among others.
April 2020
April 8
China lifts 76-day lockdown in Wuhan.
April 15
In a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing, President Trump confirmed he had been “hearing” that the coronavirus emanated from a virology lab in Wuhan.
April 16
CNBC reports US intel community examining whether coronavirus emerged accidentally from a Chinese lab
April 17
Mike Pompeo, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt (@6:20), asserted the possibility SARS-CoV-2 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and delineated the foundations of his rationale.
April 17
In a Coronavirus Task Force Press Conference (@3:57:15), Dr. Fauci was asked about the possibility SARS-CoV-2 was released from a lab, he responded by referencing a “study,” by “qualified evolutionary virologists,” a study he said would soon be available to the public. The group, according to Dr. Fauci, “looked at the sequences in bats as they evolve.” He added, “The mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now are totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.” Responding to a member of the press, he said, “the paper will be available, I don’t have the authors right now, but we can make that available to you,” denying his ability to recall Kristian Andersen's name.
April 24
The National Institutes of Health suspends EcoHealth Alliance’s grant to study corona viruses in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the $369,819 grant is subsequently reinstated on July 13, 2020, following a much larger grant of $1,546,744 awarded on June 17, 2020. On September 15, 2020 another $580,858 grant was awarded to EcoHealth for study of the Nipah virus. The additional grants far exceed the annual amounts EcoHealth received in prior years.
April 29
A YouTube video is uploaded documenting poor conditions, including waste accumulation, at Wuhan Institute of Virology (SOURCE NEEDED).
April 29
NBC news reports, “The White House has ordered intelligence agencies to comb through communications intercepts, human source reporting, satellite imagery and other data to establish whether China and the World Health Organization initially hid what they knew about the emerging coronavirus pandemic….”
April 30
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issues a press release stating, “The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.”
April 30
During a White House event declaring Older Americans Month 2020, Trump, when asked if he had evidence instilling him with a “high degree of confidence” the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virologyresponded, “Yes, yes I have.” When asked for specifics, he replied, “I can’t tell you that. I’m not allowed to tell you that.”
May 2020
May 1
Richard Horton, the Lancet’s editor-in-chief appears on China Global Television Network, China’s state-run media, delineating steps the Chinese government took in response to CoVid-19, heralding China’s efforts, criticizing the U.K. and U.S. response and dismissing lab leak theories.
May 4
In an exclusive interview with National Geographic, Fauci is quoted as saying “Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [SARS-CoV-2] evolved in nature and then jumped species.” According to National Geographic, he also doesn’t accept an alternate theory that it escaped from a lab.
May 20
Twitter user @TheSeeker268 contacts Monali Rahalkar and Rahul Bahulikar, two doctorate researchers in India and shares a link to a Chinese master’s thesis he had located on cnki.net, the official website for master’s and PhD theses in China. The 2013 Chinese master’s thesis referencing three deceased Mojiang miners who succumbed to pneumonia with characteristics similar to CoVid-19. was soon after professionally translated. It details the symptoms and treatment of the miners and reveals Dr. Zhong Nanshanw, China’s SARs expert, was consulted on the cases. According to the thesis, the Wuhan Institute of Virology had analyzed the miners' biological samples. It concludes the miners’ illness and death could be caused by a SARS-like coronavirus from a horseshoe bat. Additionally, a 2016 Chinese doctoral thesis is found that confirms that a team from the Wuhan Institute of Virology collected bat samples from the Mojiang, Yunnan mine (~1,100 miles from Wuhan) for analysis. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202005.0322/v2 https://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/2021/06/03/how-an-indian-scientist-couple-worked-to-trace-origin-course-of-covid-19.html https://zenodo.org/record/4013209/files/preprints-zenodo-manuscript.pdf?download=1 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.581569/full
Translation of the second thesis http://eng.oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CDFD&QueryID=11&CurRec=1& dbname=CDFDLAST2018&filename=1017118517.nh&UID=WEEvREcwSlJHSldTTEYzWEpEZktm RXB3Sm9JeHRKZExVOG5ySkJjK0xHMD0%3d%249A4hF_YAuvQ5obgVAqNKPCYcEjKensW4IQM ovwHtwkF4VYPoHbKxJw!!&autoLogin=0
Original Chinese thesis http://eng.oversea.cnki.net/Kcms/detail/detail.aspx?filename=1013327523.nh&dbcode=CMFD&dbname=CMFD2014
May 25
According to the Chinese state-owned Global Times, the Chinese Center for Disease Control director Gao Fu stated, “At first, we assumed the seafood market might have the virus, but now the market is more like a victim. The novel coronavirus had existed long before,” He said that samples he had collected from animals in the market in early January 2020 showed no traces of the virus.
June 2020
June 3
Appearing on the Telegraph's new Planet Normal podcast, Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, says he believes the CoVid-19 pandemic “started as an accident” when SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China. He cites a new scientific paper by a Norwegian-British research team suggesting key elements of the virus’s genetic code were artificially “inserted” and may not have resulted from natural evolution (see also a Telegraph article discussing the interview).
June 16
Shi Zhengli collaborator Linfa Wang tells National Geographic: “When we have prevented small outbreaks, people don’t care. It doesn’t get media attention. … In Wuhan, if three people died and it was controlled, would we know it? No. This is happening all the time. It is just in remote villages where people die. Although not precise in mention, this statement most likely referred to the deaths of three miners presumed to have contracted a SARS-like pneumonia at a Mojiang mine.
June 17
The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease awards EcoHealth Alliance a $1,546,744 grant for the project "Understanding Risk of Zoonotic Virus Emergence in EID Hotspots of Southeast Asia."
July 2020
July 9
Klaus Schwab publishes COVID-19 - The Great Reset.174) 175)
August 2020
September 2020
September 15
The National Instutute for Allergy and Infectious Disease awards EcoHealth Alliance a third grant. This $369,819 grant is for the "Study of Nipah virus dynamics and genetics in its bat reservoir and of human exposure to NiV across Bangladesh to understand patterns of human outbreaks.”
September 21, 2020
The House Foreign Affairs Committee releases their Minority Staff Report titled “The Origins of the COVID-19, Including the Roles of the Chinese Communist Party and the World Health Organization”.176)
October 2020
November 2020
NATO publishes a document on Cognitive Warfare produced with Innovation Hub describing an intentional deception surrounding chloroquine, perhaps even as a method of inflicting harm:
“As the example of COVID-19 shows, the massive amount of texts on the subject, including deliberately biased texts (example is the Lancet study on chloroquine) created an information and knowledge overload which, in turn, generates both a loss of credibility and a need for closure. Therefore the ability for humans to question, normally, any data/information presented is hampered, with a tendency to fall back on biases to the detriment of unfettered decision-making.”177)
November 7
Peter Dazsak celebrated Joe Biden’s victory on Twitter, writing “The People Have Chosen SCIENCE!!!!,” adding he and others were drinking four years’ worth of Perrier- Jouët Grand Brut. He followed, “Looking forward to that special moment when we hit the baiju and the karaoke with [Shi] Zhengli & Linfa [Wang],” to which Angela Rasmussen replied, “Can I come?” Peter answered Dr. Rasmussen, “Right now a party in a bat cave sounds just right to me!!” A link to the original tweet can be found here, and is archived here.
November 17
Shi Zhengli publishes an addendum detailing her involvement in studying the samples taken from the Mojiang minors. Her team admits, “Between 2012 and 2015, our group sampled bats once or twice a year in this cave and collected a total of 1,322 samples.” The team also confesses they renamed RaBtCoV/4991, to RaTG13 when Shi published her Feb 3, 2020 paper, waiting nine months before disclosing RaTG13 was linked to the lethal pneumonia of the Mojiang minors.
December 2020
December 10
Daszak writes adamantly in a tweet the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the other labs with which he has worked do not have live or dead bats in them. He deletes a previous tweet on the subject. Six months later Sky News obtains footage proving the Wuhan Institute of Virology housed bats.
On the same day, the FDA holds a virtual '162nd Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) Meeting', during which on of their advisors, Dr. Patrick Moore, of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, stated, ““Pfizer has presented no evidence in its data today that the vaccine has any effect on virus carriage or shedding, which is the fundamental basis for herd immunity.”178)
December 21
BBC China correspondent John Sudworth reports the Chinese authorities are impeding his ability to access the mine in Yunnan in which the Wuhan Institute of Virology has had a long term project to sample bats, looking for viruses.
2021
January 2021
The Advanced Purchase Agreement (APA) between Pfizer and the European Union 179) includes a rather damning line in paragraph 4 on p.48;
'The Participating Member State further acknowledges that the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be adverse effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known.'
This is buried in the purchase agreement signed by all the EU member states, while those same states were pushing the 'safe and effective' mantra on their populations and censoring anyone who urged caution or suggested that the products could not possibly be known to be either safe or effective.
January 6
Andrew Hill testifies enthusiastically alongside Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Paul Marek of the FLCCC Alliance before the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) COVID-19 Treatment Guidlelines Panel in support of ivermectin’s use as a treatment for COVID-19.180)
February 2021
February 22
Emergency physician and entrepreneur Kashif Pirzada testifies in the Canada House of Commons to the Standing Committee on Health regarding domestic production of drugs and vaccines. He made several shocking statements regarding the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and the underlying gene therapy technology, including that waning immunity was inevitable and regular boosters would be required.181)
March 2021
April 2021
April 1
The United States Department of Health and Human Services announces a COVID-19 Community Corps described as “a nationwide, grassroots network of local voices people know and trust to encourage Americans to get vaccinated.”182)
April 18
Peter Daszak sends a direct email to Fauci thanking him for his public stance. Specifically, he says, “As the Pl of the ROl grant publicly targeted by Fox News reporters at the Presidential press briefing last night, I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Peter Daszak at this point has spent years working directly with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
April 19
Judicial Watch files a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records regarding the Department of Health and Human Services’ “COVID-19 Community Corps” program.183)
May 2021
June 2021
June 7
Kristian Andersen, the virologist that praised China's response to the virus in 2020, argued for the natural origins narrative of SARS-CoV-2, and who emailed Anthony Fauci to discuss the unusual appearance of the virus, deletes his twitter account.
June 10
Steve Kirsch appears with Dr. Robert Malone on Bret Weinstein's Dark Horse podcast, discussing COVID-19 and mRNA vaccines.184)
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
A report published in Science, titled 'The hunt for SARS-CoV-2’s ancestors heats up',185) provides a useful map showing where the various virus strains were found.
September 24
Judicial Watch files a lawsuit against the United States Department of Health and Human Services following their failure to respond to a prior Freedom of Information Act request, seeking records on the COVID-19 Community Corps.186)
October 2021
A group of public employees in the Province of British Columbia, Canada forms BCPS Employees for Freedom.187)
October 1
Andrew Hill resurfaces on Twitter to announce his upcoming lecture titled, “Effects of Bias and Potential Medical Fraud in the Promotion of Ivermectin.”188)
November 2021
Andrew Hill publishes a pre-print article titled “Ivermectin for the prevention of COVID-19: addressing potential bias and medical fraud”.189)
November 16
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s The Real Anthony Fauci is published by Skyhorse Publishing and Children's Health Defense.190)
November 24
Steve Kirsch is suspended from Twitter after sharing an article about prion diseases written by Jessica Rose.191)
December 2021
December 31st
Israel reports a new disease to be scared of - flurona, a combination of the flu and corona.192)
2022
January 2022
January 22
Ireland removes most Covid-19 restrictions including: guidance in relation to household visiting, early closing time for hospitality and events, capacity restrictions for outdoor events, including sporting fixtures capacity restrictions for indoor events, including weddings, sectoral protective measures, restrictions on nightclubs, and requirements to have a valid Digital COVID Certificate to enter various premises.193)
January 27
In England, all measures under Plan B have been lifted, meaning face coverings are no longer mandatory in indoor venues. COVID Passes are now voluntary for large events and nightclubs and people are no longer being advised to work from home.194)
January 31
Vaccination as a condition of deployment for NHS England healthcare workers is being reconsidered. “This change in Government policy means we request that employers do not serve notice of termination to employees affected by the VCOD regulations.” 195)
February 2022
February 1
There are no longer any COVID-19 restrictions in Denmark.196)
February 9
The United States Federal Reserve refused to release “about 60 pages of correspondence” between its ethics officials and policymakers regarding financial transactions conducted during the pandemic year 2020, claiming exemption from the Freedom of Information Act.197)
February 14
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signals his intention to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy 2022 protests in Ontario, Québec, Alberta and British Columbia. Ontario Premier Doug Ford came out in support, while Alberta's Jason Kenney questioned the need of the action.198)
February 15
Peter Sloly resigns as Chief of the Ottawa Police Service due to his handling of the Freedom Convoy 2022 protest.199)
February 16
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) experiences a nationwide outage, leading to speculation of mass de-banking or a bank run related to the Freedom Convoy 2022 protests. CIBC, Scotiabank, and BMO Banking Group are all reportedly affected as well.200)
Vancouver Coastal Health Medical Health Officers Patricia Daly, Mark Lysyshyn, Meena Dawar and Michael Schwandt publish a letter to University of British Columbia President Santa Ono advising against de-registering students who have not declared their vaccination status. They also request that UBC end testing protocols for all staff, students and faculty, acknowledging the multiple levels of harm caused by public health measures.201)
February 17
Health Canada authorizes the Novavax Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine for use in adults.202) Public Health Scotland announces it will stop reporting data on COVID-19 cases by vaccination status due to “the data being misused deliberately by anti-vaccination campaigners”.203) 204)
February 18
New York State announces it won't enforce previously-proposed mandatory “booster doses” of COVID-19 vaccines on healthcare workers, acknowledging that it would cause a significant staffing shortage.205)
February 20
Queen Elizabeth is announced to “test positive for the coronavirus”.206)
February 21
A news clip reveals that Queen Elizabeth is being treated for COVID-19 with Stromectol, a brand of Ivermectin.207)
The Canadian House of Commons votes in favour of approving the Emergency Measures Act invoked by Justin Trudeau in response to the Freedom Convoy 2022, with all Members of Parliament voting on party lines. Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and NDP party leader Jagmeet Singh all voted in favour.208)
February 23
Trudeau's government revokes the Emergencies Act, while noting that “any violations of the law that occurred during the 10 days the measures were in place will continue to be followed up on through the justice system.”209)
March 2022
March 1
The World Health Organization's Intergovernmental Negotiating Body holds their first meeting to advance a “pandemic treaty” to consolidate global power over ”public health” actions under the WHO's Constitution.210) 211)
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) releases a 10,000-page cache of documents pertaining to the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine.212)
March 2
A Vancouver Sun poll reveals that approximately 79% of British Columbia residents believe the province should have already removed mask mandates and vaccine passports along with the rest of Canada.213) Roughly 11% of respondents supported maintaining measures “for a while yet”.214)
March 4
Dr. Tess Lawrie implores Andrew Hill to come forward as a whistleblower to expose the corrupt influences behind his sabotaging of ivermectin in January 2021.215)
March 7
Due to a daily new record of COVID-19 cases of 24,000, New Zealand officials announce that “mildly sick” hospital workers would be allowed to work at understaffed COVID wards.216)
April 2022
April 7
The University of Toronto and Moderna announce a new partnership to “develop new tools to prevent and treat infectious diseases,” including in the realms of “molecular genetics, biomedical engineering, biochemistry and beyond.”217)
April 21
Public Services and Procurement Canada publish a tender notice seeking to stockpile 500,000 doses of smallpox vaccines in order to prepare for the event of an accidental or intentional release of the smallpox virus.218) 219)
May 2022
May 5
Public Services and Procurement Canada awards a contract for the purchase of 500,000 Imvamune vaccines to Bavarian Nordic.220)
May 9
Alberta Provincial Court Judge Michael Dinkel acquits Calgary freedom rally organizer Brad Carrigan on charges that were laid under the Public Health Act, for protesting lockdowns and mask mandates. He ruled that protests “are open to the public and an expression of the Charter-protected freedoms of assembly and protest.”221)
June 2022
June 7
The Public Health Agency of Canada announces that travellers may be subject to mandatory quarantine should they become infected with monkeypox, and warned that such individuals “may have limited access to timely and appropriate health care should you become ill, and may experience delays in returning home.”222) 223)
June 22
Day 1 of A Citizens' Hearing begins in Toronto, Ontario.224) Testimonies are given by Jaiden Weinrauch, Hayley Weinrauch, Kayla Bishop, Henry Lu, Irvin Studin, James Kitchen, Dr. York Hsiang, Hugh Akoji, Susan van der Rassle, David Shaw, Beverley Perley, Marjaleena Repo, Janina Krienke, Ryan Krienke, Chris Schaefer, Scarlet Martyn, Greg Hill, Sergio Molina, Beau Bedard, Leighton Grey, Audrey Vanderhoek, Dr. Steven Pelech, Allan Rouben, Andrew MacGillivray, Harold Ristau, Sam Preslevos, and Leslie Smith.
June 23
Peter Doshi et al publish a pre-print study reviewing serious adverse events of special interest following COVID-19 vaccination in the clinical trials by Pfizer and Moderna.225)
June 24
On June 24, 2022, Health Canada appeared to delete nearly 2,000 “adverse events of special interest” related to COVID-19 vaccines, comprising 28.3% of their total collected of such reports to date.226)
July 2022
July 20
The German government admits hundreds of thousands of people have had severe side effects following injection with a mRNA vaccine.227)
August 2022
August 3
Adalsteinn Brown steps down from his role as co-chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, replaced by Upton Allen.228)
August 31
Peter Doshi et al publish Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults in the journal Vaccine,229) previously published as a pre-print on June 23.
September 2022
September 6
Hong Kong reports its first case of monkeypox.230)
September 15
Politico discovers the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's role in pandemic response.231)
September 29
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia issues a citation against Dr. Daniel Nagase for statements made related to ivermectin and COVID-19 vaccines.232) 233)
September 30
A case series report is published as an article in Nature, tracking outcomes following administration of COVID-19 vaccines in a “self-controlled” group of patients in Wales. The authors concluded that “there was a measurable risk of thrombocytopenic, haemorrhagic, thromboembolic events after COVID-19 vaccination and infection.”234)
October 2022
October 4
Judicial Watch announces that it received 249 pages of records from the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) detailing their “extensive media plans for a propaganda campaign to push the COVID-19 vaccine” through the COVID-19 Community Corps.235)
October 29 (unverified) Nearly 2 in 10 Cows Injected With mRNA “Vaccine” DIE Almost Instantly by Belle Carter Dairy farmers in Australia are now being forced to inject the gene-altering mRNA vaccine that contains spike protein so they could remain in business. Just like in humans, the experimental jabs are causing severe damage to the animals and many of them died instantly. 236)
March 2023
In a long article in The Tablet, Jacob Siegel points out that “Disinformation, now and for all time, is whatever they say it is. That is not a sign that the concept is being misused or corrupted; it is the precise functioning of a totalitarian system.”237)
July 2023
July 4 Federal Judge Terry Doughty handed down a landmark ruling, saying that there is “substantial evidence” the government violated the First Amendment by engaging in a large-scale censorship campaign targeting content that questioned or countered establishment narratives on COVID-19.238) He goes on to write;
“If the allegations made by Plaintiffs [the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana along with several medical experts and journalists who claimed social media platforms censored their views] are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history. In their attempts to suppress alleged disinformation, the Federal Government, and particularly the Defendants named here, are alleged to have blatantly ignored the First Amendment’s right to free speech. … During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’”
The entire 155-page ruling is available on DocumentCloud239) or as a PDF: july_2023_ruling_on_ministry_of_truth_.pdf
September 2023
An article by Guy Hatchard in The Conservative Woman attempts to dig deeper into reports of a surge in cancers since the rollout of the Covid-19 biologics. 240) He cites an analysis by Phinance Technologies of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims in the UK; these are the welfare benefits paid to those rendered unable to work by severe, on-going disability caused by injury or disease.
In 2022, the number of claims made across all age groups was 77% higher than the 2016-2019 average, an increase of around 372,000 extra cases; for cancer specifically, the number was 35% higher, an increase of 12,271 cases. As Hatchard points out,
'It is interesting that a 79 per cent increase in early onset cancers over a 30-year period has elicited mainstream media concern,241) whereas a 35 per cent rise in cancer incidence over one year after the vaccine rollout began, a rate 13 times higher, has been ignored.'
Senator Ron Johnson Pandemic Timeline
Totality of Evidence Pandemic Timelines
Pre-Pandemic Timeline 1900 to 1999
Chronological order of significant global, Australian and SA data points in the years leading up to the COVID-19 Pandemic.242)
Pre-Pandemic Timeline 2000 – 2015
Chronological order of significant global, Australian and SA data points leading up to the COVID-19 Pandemic. 243)
Pre-Pandemic Timeline 2016 – 2019
Chronological order of significant global, Australian and SA data points leading up to the COVID-19 Pandemic. 244)
COVID-19 Pandemic - 2020
Timeline of significant global, Australian and SA data points in the initial response and first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.245)
COVID-19 Pandemic - 2021
Timeline of significant global, Australian and SA data points continuing into the second year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. 246)
COVID-19 Pandemic 2022
Timeline of significant global and Australian data points for the third year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.247)
US Right To Know - USRTK Timeline: The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
September 14, 2022 by Emily Kopp
Introduction
“The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” is one of the most influential scientific articles in history.
In February 2020 — about a month before a pandemic had been declared — five top virologists huddled to examine aspects of a rapidly emerging coronavirus that seemed primed to infect human cells. (The furin cleavage site kept one virologist up all night.) A few days later, they concluded the virus had not been engineered. In March, their conclusions were published in Nature Medicine.
“We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible,” the article read.
The article assured much of the media, Washington and the broader infectious disease community that there was no need to scrutinize the labs at the pandemic’s epicenter in Wuhan, China. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is well known for research on SARS-like coronaviruses, including gain-of-function research. Though a “correspondence” and not a formal paper, the article has been cited in the press 2,127 times.
It took 15 months and a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to reveal that each of the five authors had expressed private concerns about engineering or the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s store of novel coronaviruses.
Also troubling: A confidential teleconference organized by Wellcome Trust Director Jeremy Farrar had framed early drafts of the article. But several scientists on the call had undisclosed conflicts of interest.
Two authors were later found to have collaborated with the Wuhan lab or its American partner, EcoHealth Alliance. The name of another virologist on the call but not publicly credited is synonymous with controversial viral engineering.
Also present on the call for “advice and leadership” but not publicly credited: director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins and director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci. NIAID had funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology — a fact Fauci had been alerted to by late January.
The scientists’ familiarity with the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s work on novel coronaviruses calls into question a central premise of the paper — that SARS-CoV-2 could not have been engineered because it appeared to be novel.
Farrar said that “proximal origin” was motivated by the absence of an investigation by the WHO. However, emails show that Farrar simultaneously shepherded along the article and appealed to the WHO.
This timeline compiles several sources in an effort to flesh out the backstory of the enormously influential article. The timeline is likely to grow as more information emerges. All times have been approximated to Eastern Time.
The authors of the “proximal origin” article are Scripps Research virologist Kristian Andersen, University of Sydney virologist Edward Holmes, Tulane School of Medicine virologist Robert Garry, University of Edinburgh virologist Andrew Rambaut and Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin.
“Just a few of us – Eddie, Kristian, Tony and I – were now privy to sensitive information that, if proved to be true, might set off a whole series of events that would be far bigger than any of us. It felt as if a storm was gathering,” Farrar wrote of the period leading up the publication of “proximal origin.” 248)