Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

Genome

 * Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding - The Lancet, January 30, 2020
 * Clock and TMRCA based on 27 genomes - Kristian Andersen, January 25, 2020
 * Full-genome evolutionary analysis of the novel corona virus (2019-nCoV) rejects the hypothesis of emergence as a result of a recent recombination event - D. Paraskevis & al., January 27, 2020 (biorxiv preprint)
 * Isolation and Characterization of 2019-nCoV-like Coronavirus from Malayan Pangolins - Kangpeng Xiao & al., February 20, 2020 (biorxiv preprint)
 * Decoding evolution and transmissions of novel pneumonia coronavirus using the whole genomic data - Yu, Wen-Bin & al., February 21, 2020 (preprint)
 * ''See talk for debunk.
 * Phylogenetic analysis of nCoV-2019 genomes - Andrew Rambaut, February 24, 2020
 * Comparative genomic analysis revealed specific mutation pattern between human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and Bat-SARSr-CoV RaTG13 - Longxian Lv & al., March 2, 2020 (preprint)
 * Cryptic transmission of novel coronavirus revealed by genomic epidemiology - Trevor Bedford, March 2, 2020
 * On the origin and continuing evolution of SARS-CoV-2 - Xiaolu Tang, & al., National Science Review, March 3, 2020 (PDF)
 * The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 - Kristian G. Andersen & al., Nature Medicine, March 17, 2020 (PDF)
 * Probable Pangolin Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Associated with the COVID-19 Outbreak - Tao Zhang & al., Cell, March 19, 2020
 * Pangolins may not have passed coronavirus on to humans, Chinese scientists say - SCMP, March 26, 2020
 * The perfect virus: two gene tweaks that turned COVID-19 into a killer - Liam Mannix, Sydney Morning Herald, March 29, 2020

Furin cleavage site

 * A furin cleavage site was discovered in the S protein of the Wuhan 2019 novel coronavirus - Xin Li & al., February 14, 2020 (preprint)
 * The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade - B.Coutard & al., Antiviral Research, Volume 176, April 2020
 * Furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus glycoprotein - Vincent Racaniello, virology blog, February 13, 2020
 * Sequence Analysis Indicates that 2019-nCoV Virus Contains a Putative Furin Cleavage Site at the Boundary of S1 and S2 Domains of Spike Protein - Z. Wo, February 18, 2020 (preprint)
 * Coronavirus far more likely than Sars to bond to human cells due to HIV-like mutation, scientists say - SCMP, February 27, 2020
 * The perfect virus: two gene tweaks that turned COVID-19 into a killer - Sydney Morning Heral, March 29, 2020
 * ''RaTG13, or another very similar bat virus, has managed to pick up two tiny genetic tweaks that turned it from a bat disease into a virus perfectly adapted to make humans sick. Then it had the unbelievable misfortune to emerge in exactly the wrong place at exactly the wrong time. “It’s got this beautifully adapted set of mutations,” says Holmes. In his published work, he calls it a “perfect epidemiological storm”.

ACE2 receptor recognition

 * Receptor Recognition by the Novel Coronavirus from Wuhan: an Analysis Based on Decade-Long Structural Studies of SARS Coronavirus - Yushun Wan & al., Journal of Virology, January 29, 2020
 * Isolation and Characterization of 2019-nCoV-like Coronavirus from Malayan Pangolins - Kangpeng Xiao & al., February 20, 2020 (preprint)
 * Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation - Daniel Wrapp & al., Science, March 13, 2020
 * Structural basis of receptor recognition by SARS-CoV-2 - Jian Shang & al., Nature, March 30, 2020

Signs of artificial creation

 * ''Note: Some of the early material here has been debunked.


 * On the Origins of the 2019-nCoV Virus, Wuhan, China - James Lyons-Weiler, January 30, 2020
 * Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag - Prashant Pradhan & al., via biorxiv, January 31, 2020 (PDF) (withdrawn)
 * No, the 2019-nCoV genome doesn’t really seem engineered from HIV - Ari Allyn-Feuer, The Prepared, January 31, 2020
 * Don’t believe the conspiracy theories you hear about coronavirus and HIV - Especially if you work for the New York Times - Dan Samorodnitsky, Massive Science, January 31, 2020
 * Thread by Trevor Bedford @trvrb on Twitter, February 1, 2020 - further debunk of crazy nCoV2019 / HIV conspiracy preprint
 * On the Oddities and Unusual Characteristics of the 2019-nCoV Virus Genomes and Their Analyses - James Lyons-Weiler, February 1, 2020
 * Moderately Strong Confirmation of a Laboratory Origin of 2019-nCoV - James Lyons-Weiler, February 2, 2020
 * New evidence emerges: Coronavirus “bioweapon” might have been a Chinese vaccine experiment gone wrong… genes contain “pShuttle-SN” sequences, proving laboratory origin - Mike Adams, February 2, 2020

Database listing

 * GenBank MN908947.3


 * Random questions
 * why does the wuhan coronavirus genome end in 33 a's ?

Transmission

 * Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China - The Lancet, January 24, 2020
 * coronavirus 2019-nCoV: early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic predictions - Jonathan M Read & al., January 28, 2020
 * Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia - New England Journal of Medicine, January 29, 2020
 * Study claiming new coronavirus can be transmitted by people without symptoms was flawed - Science, February 3, 2020
 * Reporter's Notebook: Life and death in a Wuhan coronavirus ICU - ''The Strait Times, February 6, 2020
 * The true cost of China's coronavirus cover-up: How state censorship let the outbreak spread - National Post (Canada), February 7, 2020
 * The Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, is Highly Contagious and More Infectious Than Initially Estimated - Steven Sanche & al., February 11, 2020
 * Fears of global coronavirus pandemic increase as 2 more die in Iran - New York Post, February 21, 2020
 * Coronavirus: more deaths confirmed as authorities around the world struggle to contain outbreak – latest updates - The Guardian, February 22, 2020
 * Characteristics of and Important Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in China - Zunyou Wu & al., JAMA, February 24, 2020
 * Covid-19: surge in cases in Italy and South Korea makes pandemic look more likely - Michael Day, BMJ, February 25, 2020
 * Early epidemiological assessment of the transmission potential and virulence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan City: China, January-February, 2020 - Kenji Mizumoto & al., March 13, 2020 (preprint)
 * Coronavirus is most contagious before and during the first week of symptoms - ScienceNews, March 13, 2020
 * UK coronavirus crisis 'to last until spring 2021 and could see 7.9m hospitalised - The Guardian, March 15, 2020
 * COVID-19 pandemic just started, hard to see end: Chinese epidemiologist - Global Times, March 24, 2020
 * Report 11: Evidence of initial success for China exiting COVID-19 social distancing policy after achieving containment - Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, March 24, 2020
 * COVID-19: Two Major ‘Waves’ of Global Infection, Towards Global Contamination? - Larry Romanoff, Global Research, March 26, 2020
 * Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing - Luca Ferretti & al., Science, March 31, 2020
 * These Coronavirus Exposures Might Be the Most Dangerous Joshua D. Rabinowitz & Caroline R. Bartman, The New York Times, April 1, 2020 (archive)
 * Experts tell the White House coronavirus can spread through talking and even just breathing - The Hill, April 2, 2020
 * Rare coronavirus patient’s mild symptoms but long illness may point to ‘chronic’ mutation: researchers - SCMP, April 1, 2020 (source)
 * ''Such information may indicate a new mild subtype of the virus, which has lower toxicity and weaker transmissibility but is more difficult to eliminate.

Quarantine

 * The Chinese villages attempting to self quarantine - Sky News, January 28, 2020 (video)
 * Coronavirus: Li Wenliang, doctor who alerted authorities to the outbreak, dies of the disease - South China Morning Post, February 7, 2020
 * The U.S. Government Is Quarantining More Than 800 Americans. Here's Why That Very Rarely Happens - TIME, February 7, 2020
 * Americans quarantined at a US Air Force base over the coronavirus are teaching each other Zumba, boxing, and how to file their taxes - Business Insider, February 8, 2020
 * https://www.facebook.com/steve.schlafly/videos/10219916893128637/
 * Military approves 11 COVID-19 quarantine camps 'for up to 1,000 people' next to major US airports - Daily Mail Online, February 11, 2020
 * Why China’s commitment and ability to contain the coronavirus outbreak should not be doubted - SCMP, February 14, 2020
 * Inside China’s All-Out War on the Coronavirus - The New York Times, March 4, 2020 (archive)
 * Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions for containing the COVID-19 outbreak: an observational and modelling study - Shengjie Lai & al., March 9, 2020 (preprint)
 * “Flattening the Curve” is a deadly delusion - Joscha Bach, March 14, 2020
 * People Fleeing Coronavirus Head to a New Safe Haven: China - WSJ, March 16, 2020
 * New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces - ''National Institutes of Health', March 17, 2020
 * Lock the F*ck Down or End Up Like Italy - Daily Beast, March 22, 2020

Europe

 * Italy quarantines quarter of its population to fight coronavirus - Al Jazeera, March 8, 2020
 * Coronavirus: Northern Italy quarantines 16 million people - BBC, March 8, 2020

USA

 * How testing failures allowed coronavirus to sweep the U.S. - Politico, March 6, 2020
 * ‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response - The New York Times, March 10, 2020 (archive)
 * Exclusive: Captain of aircraft carrier with growing coronavirus outbreak pleads for help from Navy - San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2020
 * TR-COVID-19-Assistance-Request (PDF)
 * 51 Test Positive For Coronavirus At Wilmington Nursing Home - Patch, April 4, 2020
 * ''All of the 98 residents set to leave AdviniaCare were tested, and 51 people tested positive. None of these people had any symptoms.

Ecuador

 * Ecuadorians protest bodies of COVID-19 victims being left in the streets - Andrea Lobo, WSWS, April 4, 2020

Protection

 * N95 vs FFP3 & FFP2 masks – what’s the difference? - Fast Life Hacks, February 3, 2020
 * N95 RE-USE STRATEGIES - SAGES, April 3, 2020

Mortality

 * Estimates of the severity of COVID-19 disease - Robert Verity & al., March 13, 2020 (preprint)
 * A Swiss Doctor on Covid-19 - Swiss Propaganda Research, March 14, 2020
 * Estimating clinical severity of COVID-19 from the transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China - Joseph T. Wu & al., Nature Medicine, March 19, 2020
 * Coronavirus deaths: What we don't know - BBC News, March 21, 2020
 * Chinese aid doctor diagnoses COVID-19’s high death rate in Italy - Global Times, March 19, 2020
 * How lethal is Covid-19 REALLY? Why massive fatality rates from Italy are MISLEADING - Peter Andrews, RT, March 25, 2020
 * Severe Outcomes Among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) — United States, February 12–March 16, 2020 - CDC COVID-19 Response Team, March 26, 2020
 * How deadly is the coronavirus? It’s still far from clear - The Spectator, March 28, 2020
 * Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis - Robert Verity & al., The Lancet, March 30, 2020

Testing methods

 * Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) - Wikipedia
 * CDC: real-time RT-PCR
 * known to be in use in Moscow hospitals
 * SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Multiplex RT-qPCR Kit - Creative Diagnostics
 * Development of a Laboratory-safe and Low-cost Detection Protocol for SARS-CoV-2 of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 - Won J1 & al., March 10, 2020
 * Reverse Transcription Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification - Wikipedia
 * Rapid Detection of Novel Coronavirus (COVID19) by Reverse Transcription-Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification - Laura E. Lamb & al., The Lancet, February 19, 2020
 * The FDA has approved emergency use of a new coronavirus test that delivers positive results in 5 minutes - Business Insider, March 28, 2020 (press release)
 * Fast test for virus proteins in swabs using COVID antibodies.
 * Flu test produce results in 15 minutes.
 * Not yet available for COVID-19
 * Blood tests for coronavirus antibodies (Only work when patient das developed immunity.)
 * 20/20 BioResponse to Launch Rapid Coronavirus Test Kits in U.S. following “Green Light” from FDA - BioSpace, March 19, 2020
 * ''Rapid Antibody Test Generates Results in under 15 minutes from Blood Drop without Laboratory Equipment or Personnel
 * STANDARD Q COVID-19 IgM/IgG Duo
 * Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) IgM/IgG Test Kit
 * igg, igs tests (being mentioned, actual use and usefulness unknown here).

Intensive care instrumentation

 * Ventilator machine. (Numbers available are too low for a major outbreak, efforts to urgently produce started)
 * ECMO machines ('artificial lung': removing CO2 and oxygenating red blood cells)
 * CDC interim guidance

Procedures
Oxygen -> ventilator -> turning patient to lie on stomach so that there is less water in upper parts of lungs ->ECMO

In Moscow: Oxygen -> turning (see above) -> ventilator -> ECMO; trying to avoid ventilator, ECMO as long as it's possible

Chloroquine

 * is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread - Martin J Vincent & al., Virology Journal, August 22, 2005
 * Why France is hiding a cheap and tested virus cure - Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, March 25, 2020
 * The Trial of Chloroquine in the Treatment of Corona Virus Disease 2019 （COVID-19） and Its Research Progress in Forensic Toxicology - Duan YJ & al., Journal of Forensic Medicine, March 25, 2020
 * Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: results of a randomized clinical trial - Zhaowei Chen & al., March 31, 2020 (preprint)
 * New updates from Dr. Vladimir Zelenko: Cocktail of Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc Sulfate and Azithromycin are showing phenomenon results with 900 coronavirus patients treated - TechStartups, April 5, 2020

Vitamin C

 * Can early and high intravenous dose of vitamin C prevent and treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? - Richard Z.Cheng, Medicine in Drug Discovery, March 26, 2020
 * New York hospitals treating coronavirus patients with vitamin C - New York Post, March 24, 2020

Experimental treatment

 * Kaletra (Lopinavir/Ritonavit), anti AIDS drug, experimentally tried with some positive results reported, although no pharmacological grounds to do so are known.
 * The FDA-approved Drug Ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. Antiviral Research - Leon Caly & al., Antiviral Research, April 3, 2020

Recommendations

 * Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Guidelines on the Management of Critically Ill Adults with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
 * Management of Critically Ill Adults With COVID-19 - Jason T. Poston, JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis, March 26, 2020

Vaccination

 * Skin Patch Vaccine Shows Promise in Neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 - Technology Networks, April 3, 2020

Infowar

 * China spent the crucial first days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak arresting people who posted about it online and threatening journalists - Ashley Collman, Business Insider, January 24, 2020
 * Bioweapons, secret labs, and the CIA: pro-Kremlin actors blame the U.S. for coronavirus outbreak - DFRLab, January 30, 2020
 * Zerohedge Suspended On Twitter - Zerohedge, February 2, 2020
 * Quick retraction of a faulty coronavirus paper was a good moment for science -  STAT, February 3, 2020
 * Petition For WHO Director General To Resign Reaches Over 210,000 Signatures - ZeroHedge, February 3, 2020
 * Clear racist element to hysteria over new coronavirus – Slavoj Zizek - RT, February 3, 2020
 * SACRIFICIAL CITY? Chinese Authorities Go Door to Door, Dragging People Away to MANDATORY Quarantine Camps - Daisy Luther, IWB, February 8, 2020
 * NYT is waging information warfare by politicizing the coronavirus - Andrew Korybko, CGTN, February 9, 2020
 * Coronavirus: US says Russia behind disinformation campaign - The Guardian, February 22, 2020
 * Coronavirus Outbreak 5 to 10 Times Worse Than China Admits: Study - Epoch Times, February 24, 2020 (preprint)
 * North Korea's first confirmed Coronavirus COVID 19 patient shot dead: report - International Business Times, February 27, 2020
 * China's coronavirus recovery is 'all fake,' whistleblowers and residents claim - Kathryn Krawczyk, The Week, March 6, 2020
 * Coronavirus: Fake news unit will tackle Russian conspiracy theories - Business Insider, March 9, 2020
 * ''The UK government has created a special unit designed to combat Russian disinformation about the novel coronavirus after the US accused Moscow of spreading a series of conspiracy theories seeking to blame the West for the virus. White House officials have accused Russia of creating thousands of fake Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts to spread conspiracy theories that the US was somehow the originator of the virus. Posts included claims that the virus was a bid by the US to "wage economic war on China," that it was a bioweapon engineered by the CIA, and that it was fostered "to push anti-China messages." The campaign was first spotted in mid-January, with several thousand accounts — many of which were previously tied to Russian activities — posting "near-identical" messages about coronavirus.
 * Russia deploying coronavirus disinformation to sow panic in West, EU document says - Reuters, March 18, 2020
 * EU says pro-Kremlin media trying to sow 'panic and fear' with coronavirus disinformation - CNN, March 18, 2020
 * Russian media ‘spreading Covid-19 disinformation’ - The Guardian, March 18, 2020
 * We Are in This Crisis Because of the Decisions of the Chinese Government - Jim Geraghty, National Review, March 16, 2020
 * This virus should be forever linked to the regime that facilitated its spread - Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post, March 17, 2020
 * COVID-19: All Truth Has Three Stages - Larry Romanoff, Global Research, March 19, 2020
 * It’s time to practice social and economic distancing from China - Washington Post, March 19, 2020
 * Scientists from Taiwan informed the WHO as early as 31 Dec about the human to human transmission of the #chineseVirus from Wuhan but not only did WHO suppress this info, it continued peddling the lie that it doesn’t spread from human to human. - News Insider, March 27, 2020
 * Doctor ‘disappears’ after raising alarm about coronavirus in Wuhan - Metro UK, April 1, 2020 (more)
 * The blame game: the origins of Covid-19 and the anatomy of a fake news story - Robert Boxwell, SCMP, April 4, 2020 (Politico)
 * Tim Pool Claims USA Trying to KILL Him - Nathan Rich, April 6, 2020 (video)

Wuhan virus laboratory

 * The Real Umbrella Corp: Wuhan Ultra Biohazard Lab Was Studying "The World's Most Dangerous Pathogens" - ZeroHedge, January 24, 2020
 * Gertz: Wuhan Virus Linked To China Bio Weapons - Newsmax, January 25, 2020
 * Coronavirus Bioweapon – How China Stole Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponized It - GreatGameIndia'', January 26, 2020 (mirror)
 * Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic? - ZeroHedge, January 29, 2020
 * Wuhan Coronavirus, Jeffrey Epstein, and Harvard University - Ascetic_Ideal, Reddit, January 29, 2020
 * Coronavirus Exposed, Part 1: Communist Coverup, or Pandemic Bioweapon of Mass Destruction? - Adrian Bond, Blazing Press, January 30, 2020 (original)
 * Logistical and Technical Exploration into the Origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Harvard to the Big House, January 31, 2020
 * Sen. Cotton Shreds China's Official Virus Story, Hints at 'Super Laboratory' - Jared Harris, The Western Journal, February 1, 2020
 * Dr. Francis Boyle Creator Of BioWeapons Act Says Coronavirus Is Biological Warfare Weapon - GreatGameIndia, February 3, 2020 (mirror)
 * A virus called Wuhan-400 causes outbreak … in a Dean Koontz thriller from 1981. How is it that some books appear to prophesy events? - Kate Whitehead, SCMP, February 13, 2020
 * The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus - Botao Xiao & al., February 2020 (deleted preprint, PDF)
 * Smoking Gun? Chinese Scientist Finds "Killer Coronavirus Probably Originated From A Laboratory In Wuhan" - ''ZeroHedge, February 15, 2020
 * Full transcript of “smoking gun” bombshell interview: Prof. Francis Boyle exposes the bioweapons origins of the CoVid-19 coronavirus - Natural News, February 20, 2020 (video)
 * ''Worse than that because all this work, this biological weapons work involving the Wuhan virology, was approved and funded by the National Institutes of Health.
 * Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab - Steven W. Mosher, New York Post, February 22, 2020
 * ''Steven W. Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and the author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s ‘Dream’ is the New Threat to World Order.”
 * in the trolls: Canada braces for an online disinformation assault on COVID-19 - CBC, March 14, 2020
 * The coronavirus did not escape from a lab. Here's how we know. - Life Science, March 21, 2020
 * I Found The Source of the Coronavirus - laowhy86, April 1, 2020 (video)
 * Did coronavirus leak from research lab in Wuhan? Startling theory is 'no longer being discounted' - Daily Mail Online, April 5, 2020
 * Wuhan lab virus leak ‘no longer discounted’: Cobra - Asia Times, April 6, 2020
 * ''The member of Cobra, which receives classified briefings from the security services, said: “There is a credible alternative view [to the zoonotic theory] based on the nature of the virus. Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is that laboratory in Wuhan. It is not discounted.”

Biological origin?

 * Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct' - ABC News, March 27, 2020,
 * ''And while many believe the virus originated at a fish market in Wuhan, China, Garry said that is also a misconception. "Our analyses, and others too, point to an earlier origin than that," Garry said. "There were definitely cases there, but that wasn’t the origin of the virus."
 * Coronavirus: pathogen could have been spreading in humans for decades, study says - SCMP, March 29, 2020
 * ''The two viruses shared more than 96 per cent of their genes, but the bat virus could not infect humans. It lacked a spike protein to bind with receptors in human cells.
 * ''Coronaviruses with a similar spike protein were later discovered in Malayan pangolins by separate teams from Guangzhou and Hong Kong, which led some researchers to believe that a recombination of genomes had occurred between the bat and pangolin viruses.

US origin?

 * CDC director says some coronavirus-related deaths have been found posthumously - CNN, March 11, 2020
 * COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US - Larry Romanoff, Global Research, March 11, 2020
 * 'US Army Behind Covid-19 In Wuhan': China's Foreign Ministry Levels Bombastic Charge - ZeroHedge, March 12, 2020
 * Exclusive: White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations - sources - Reuters, March 11, 2020
 * ''SCIFs are usually reserved for intelligence and military operations. Ordinary cell phones and computers can’t be brought into the chambers. HHS has SCIFs because theoretically it would play a major role in biowarfare or chemical attacks.
 * 'American coronavirus': China pushes propaganda casting doubt on virus origin - The Guardian, March 13, 2020
 * COVID19 TIMELINE via Facebook
 * Fact check: Coronavirus originated in China, not elsewhere, researchers and studies say - Matthew Brown, USA Today, March 16, 2020
 * Meet Wuhan CoronaVirus Patient One - Maatje Benassi - George Webb, March 20, 2020 (video)
 * Coronavirus prepared at the bio-weapons laboratory in the US - Dennis Etler, Eurasia Diary, March 20, 2020
 * Last Man Standing - Godfree Roberts, Unz Review, March 22, 2020
 * ''The following content is circulating in Chinese cyberspace.
 * ''42 employees of the Oriental Hotel were diagnosed with COVID-19, becoming the first cluster in Wuhan. At the time only 7 people from the market had been thus diagnosed (and treated before the hotel staff). All 7 had contact with the 42 from the hotel. From this source, the virus spread to the rest of China.
 * Americans track down suspected case of new crown pneumonia, female athlete in the military games! @Trump please explain it! - political commissar Canrong, WeChat, March 23, 2020 (in Chinese)
 * Trump administration owes the world an explanation - CGTN, March 23, 2020
 * US urged to release health info of military athletes who came to Wuhan in October 2019 - Global Times, March 25, 2020
 * Fact check: Could your December cough actually have been coronavirus? Experts say more research is needed - USA Today, April 3, 2020
 * U.S. doctor with 'flu' in Jan tests positive for COVID-19 antibody - Pan Zhaoyi, CGTN, April 5, 2020

Italy?

 * ''There was a cluster of pneumonia in Piacenza in December 2019. Piacenza is only 10 km from Codogno, the birthplace of the Italian pandemic. A phylogenetic analysis of the Italian SARS-COV-2 shows it is closely related to the Wuhan strain, so the two events cannot be directly related.


 * First aid: over 40 cases of pneumonia in the last week -  Libertà, December 30, 2019 (in Italian)
 * ''From 22 December to yesterday (29 December) as many as 35 patients have been hospitalized in the Piacenza hospital for pneumonia. Another 9 patients were able to return home because they did not need to do oxygen therapy.
 * Coronavirus, the prediction of prof. Giuseppe Remuzzi (Mario Negri Institute): "We need ... - La7 Attualità, March 18, 2020 (video)
 * ''Professor Ramuzzi (at 4:19) It is very true. Do you know what happened? Certain family doctors, who have the best on the ground information, at least the most attentive ones, have told me recently that they were seeing truly grave cases of pneumonia, which we had never seen before. These pneumonia cases had nothing to do with typical flu pneumonia, they were interstitial pneumonias, they had to do CT, radiography, [to diagnose it], and this was happening in October, November, December. So this virus has been around a long time.
 * Italian expert: special pneumonia symptoms exist in October in Italy - CGTN, March 23, 2020
 * Coronavirus: ‘strange pneumonia’ seen in Lombardy in November, leading Italian doctor says - SCMP, March 22, 2020

UK?

 * Fundamental principles of epidemic spread highlight the immediate need for large-scale serological surveys to assess the stage of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic - José Lourenço & al., March 2020
 * Coronavirus may have infected half of UK population — Oxford study - FT, March 24, 2020
 * Coronavirus UK: Half population could be infected, says expert - Daily Mail Online,
 * ''The new model from Oxford University suggests the virus was circulating in the UK by mid-January, around two weeks before the first reported case and a month before the first reported death.
 * ''This means it could have had enough time to have spread widely, with many Britons acquiring immunity. Sunetra Gupta, a professor of theoretical epidemiology who led the study, said testing was needed to assess the theory. ‘We need immediately to begin large-scale serological surveys – antibody testing – to assess what stage of the epidemic we are in now,’ she said.
 * Coronavirus: The High Cost Of Being Wrong - March 26, 2020
 * ''Counterarguments to the suggestions of the Oxford Study in this video from Chris Martenson. Based on 4 week window for antibodies to be active and the observed rate of doubling of reported cases. (From 19.56)

Relationship to vaping illness?

 * ''Note: There is no proper way to diagnose "vaping disease". The diagnosis is made by excluding all other causes. In Wuhan all these cases would have been diagnosed as COVID-19, even without a test for coronavirus RNA.


 * 2019–20 vaping lung illness outbreak - Wikipedia
 * ''An outbreak of severe vaping-associated lung illness starting in 2019[2] is ongoing among users of vaping products,[3] almost exclusively in the United States.[4] The first cases were identified in Illinois and Wisconsin in April 2019; as of January 21, 2020, a total of 2,711 hospitalized cases, including 60 deaths have been confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.[3] Cases peaked in September 2019, and have been slowly declining since.
 * Vaping-associated pulmonary injury - Wikipedia
 * ''Symptoms can initially mimic common pulmonary diagnoses like pneumonia, but individuals typically do not respond to antibiotic therapy.
 * Vaping Illness Tracker: 2,602. Cases and 59 Deaths. - The New York Times
 * Cause of Respiratory Illness Still Unknown After Dozens Sickened at Virginia Retirement Community - NBC Washington, July 17, 2019
 * ''Health officials said last week what was striking about the outbreak was the number of residents impacted and the time of year — summer instead of winter, when flu and respiratory illness usually spread.
 * British vapers are safe, claim health experts after deaths in US - September 7, 2019
 * Mysterious vaping-related lung illnesses are spreading across the US. Doctors say these are the symptoms to watch out for - Insider, September 19, 2020
 * Guide to the Mysterious “Vaping Illness” That Captivated Our Attention in 2019 - allure, November 30, 2019
 * Five myths and misconceptions about the nation's 2019 vaping illness crisis - USA Today, December 28, 2019
 * People are still dying from mysterious vaping illness, even as outbreak slows - CNBC, January 6, 2020
 * The Coronavirus CONSPIRACY - Did COVID-19 Come from America? - Nathan Rich, March 16, 2020 (video)
 * Doctors say vaping could make coronavirus worse for young people - New York Post, March 21, 2020
 * Is There Actually a Link Between Vaping and COVID-19? - TIME, March 23, 2020

Bioweapon?

 * ''See also US bioweapons program


 * Binary Virus Conjectures - broward, January 26, 2020
 * Was the 2020 Wuhan Coronavirus an engineered biological attack on China by America for geopolitical advantage? - Metallicman, January 27, 2020
 * Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent DARPA Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak - Whitney Webb, Unz Review, January 30, 2020
 * Coronavirus looks as if tailor-made to achieve US objectives: Scholar - PressTV, January 31, 2020
 * Satire: Buried hazardous containers found buried in evacuated US consulate in Wuhan: China demands explanation - Panorama, February 1, 2020 (in Russian)
 * 'Weaponised Hysteria': Can US Use Coronavirus Outbreak to Its Advantage in Trade Talks With China? - Tim Korso, Sputnik, February 2, 2020
 * Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is biological warfare to decouple the US-China economies as a prelude to US attacking China in a fighting war - Anon., February 5,2020 (mirror)
 * China – Western China Bashing – vs. Western Bio-warfare? - Peter Koenig, New Eastern Outlook, February 7, 2020
 * Coronavirus: Russian media hint at US conspiracy - BBC News, February 7, 2020
 * Some in Russia Think the Coronavirus Is a U.S. Biological Weapon - Mark Episkopos, National Interest, February 7, 2020
 * Cuban State Media Suggests Coronavirus Is U.S. 'Bioterrorism' - Breitbart, February 11, 2020
 * Coronavirus A Bioweapon? White House Investigates, As Military Sets Up Quarantine Sites Across U.S. - Spiro Skouras, Activist Post, February 14, 2020 (video)
 * Nearly 10K Military Personnel From 110 Nations In Wuhan China Weeks Before Coronavirus Outbreak! - Spiro Skouras, Activist Post, February 15, 2020 (video)
 * New Coronavirus: An Examination of the Facts - Larry Romanoff, LewRockwell.com, February 17, 2020
 * China’s Coronavirus. “We Cannot Rule Out Man Made Origin of these Infections” - A Russian Appraisal - Larry Romanoff and Igor Nikulin, Global Research, February 17, 2020
 * No Weapon Left Behind: The American Hybrid War on China - Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture, February 21, 2020
 * Bioweapons Expert Speaks Out About Novel Coronavirus - Joseph Mercola, March 8, 2020
 * Comment by "OldMicrobiologist" - The Saker blog, March 12, 2020
 * US biological warfare against China could lead to World War III - Kevin Barrett, PressTV, March 13, 2020
 * Looking at the Military Aspects of Biological Warfare - The Saker, Unz Review, March 14, 2020
 * Biowarfare Experts On Coronavirus (COVID19) - Valuetainment, March 20, 2020
 * Coronavirus in the laboratory, the Rai service of 2015: "A supervirus created from bats and mice" - Rai3, March 25, 2020 (First broadcast September 2015)
 * Marine Le Pen Says It’s Reasonable to Question If COVID-19 Was 'Lab-Produced' - Sputnik, March 30, 2020

Preparation

 * A world at risk: Annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies - Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, September 2019 (PDF)
 * ''A rapidly spreading pandemic due to a lethal respiratory pathogen (whether naturally emergent or accidentally or deliberately released) poses additional preparedness requirements.
 * 201 Pandemic Exercise: Highlights Reel - Center for Health Security, November 4, 2019 (video)
 * The Next Pandemic Is Out There. Is the Private Sector Ready? - Freethink, November 8, 2019
 * Authorities are training to combat biohazards at the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport on Wednesday, 11 December - Lentoposti, December 10, 2019 (in Finnish)
 * Customs: Co-operation between authorities in Helsinki-Vantaa coincidentally at the same time as the Isis families' repatriation debate - Kainuun Sanomat, December 11, 2019 (in Finnish)
 * These plushies do not ‘commemorate’ the 2019 Novel coronavirus strain - PolitiFact, February 3, 2020
 * EVENT 201: COVID-19 Was Launched One Month After The Johns Hopkins Center And Bill Gates Hosted An Invitation Only Global Pandemic Exercise - Now The End Begins, March 16, 2020
 * The Show Must Go On. Event 201: The 2019 Fictional Pandemic Exercise (World Economic Forum, Gates Foundation et al.) - Cory Morningstar, Wrong Kind of Green, March 19, 2020
 * Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded - The New York Times, March 19, 2020
 * Exclusive: Inside the military's top secret plan if coronavirus cripples the government - Newsweek, March 18, 2020
 * The Staggering Collapse Of U.S. Intelligence On The Coronavirus - Scott Ritter, The American Conservative, March 24, 2020
 * Why Was It So Hard to Raise the Alarm on the Coronavirus? - David Wallace-Wells, New York Mag, March 26, 2020
 * South Korea's emergency exercise in December facilitated coronavirus testing, containment - Reuters, March 30, 2020
 * Urban Outbreak 2019 Pandemic Response: Select Research & Game Findings - U.S. Naval War College , April 1, 2020
 * The Naval War College Ran a Pandemic War Game in 2019. The Conclusions Were Eerie - Military.com, April 1, 2020
 * Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming - The Nation, April 1, 2020
 * ''The plan states: “Competition for, and scarcity of resources will include…non-pharmaceutical MCM [Medical Countermeasures] (e.g., ventilators, devices, personal protective equipment such as face masks and gloves), medical equipment, and logistical support. This will have a significant impact on the availability of the global workforce.”
 * Report: Pentagon Knew Of Possible Coronavirus Threat For Years - NPR, April 5, 2020

Breakdown of healthcare system

 * 'That's when all hell broke loose': Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals - CNN, March 25, 2020

Geopolitical implications

 * China Wants to Use the Coronavirus to Take Over the World - Bruno Maçães, National Review, April 3, 2020
 * ''To put it more bluntly: There was always an argument that the existing world order cannot change because only a momentous war has done that in the past and world wars have become impossible. But in pandemics — and soon in climate change — we may have found two functional equivalents of war.
 * The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order - Henry A. Kissinger, Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2020 (mirror)
 * When Plagues Pass, Labor Gets the Upper Hand - John Authers, Bloomberg, April 5, 2020 (Yahoo)

Blame China

 * Coronavirus Compensation? Assessing China’s Potential Culpability and Avenues of Legal Response - The Henry Jackson Society, April 5, 2020
 * China must pay Britain £351bn in coronavirus damages - report calls for UN to step in - Express, April 5, 2020
 * ''An investigation by the Henry Jackson Society has concluded China could have mitigated the worldwide economic impact of COVID-19 and indicated there is evidence the Chinese Government breached international healthcare responsibilities. The British foreign policy think-tank estimates the spread of coronavirus, which has infected more than one million people globally, has cost the G7 group of nations including the UK, US and Japan a huge £3.2 trillion.

Analysis

 * Novel Coronavirus Defies Conspiracy Theories As Data Shows Its Coming Decline - Moon of Alabama, February 1, 2020
 * "Something's Not Right Here Folks"​ | A Look at USA 2009 H1N1 Virus Compared to China 2020 Corona Virus - Mario Cavolo, February 5, 2020
 * Coronavirus fatality rates vary wildly depending on age, gender and medical history — some patients fare much worse than others - Market Watch, February 27, 2020
 * Coronavirus - Its Time To Press Your Government To React Faster - Moon of Alabama, February 29, 2020
 * Forget about mortality rate, this is why you should be worried about coronavirus - Adam Wren, March 1, 2020
 * Here’s what’s coming for America as the coronavirus spreads… city-scale quarantines, overrun hospitals, domestic flight lockdowns and MEDICAL MARTIAL LAW - Mike Adams, Natural News, March 3, 2020
 * Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo, March 10, 2020
 * COVID-19: Why America May Be Hit Hard for 3-4 Months & What To Do - Carl Juneau, March 13, 2020
 * Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance - Tomas Pueyo, March 19, 2020
 * Five researchers demand: The corona epidemic must be suppressed in Finland now - Asia leads Europe 6-0 in the fight against the epidemic - Suomen Kuvalehti, April 3, 2020 (in Finnish)