Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

Genome

 * Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding - The Lancet, January 30, 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
 * 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)

Signs of artificial creation

 * 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in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag - Prashant Pradhan & al., via biorxiv, January 31, 2020 (PDF) Withdrawn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

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

Transmission

 * Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China - The Lancet, January 24, 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
 * Coronavirus is most contagious before and during the first week of symptoms - ScienceNews, March 13, 2020

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

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)

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

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)
 * 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

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

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
 * 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)

Bioweapon?

 * 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

Preparation

 * 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

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