COVID-19 Coronavirus Events and Publications

• 2019.12.30 Dr Li Wenliang (李文亮) and 7 other medical personnel posted warning in their private Wechat group
• 2019.12.31 China informed WHO of the new coronavirus
• 2019.12.31 Professor Leo Poon (潘烈文 WHO consultant, HKU) asked Dr Li-Meng Yan (閻麗夢) "to do some secret investigation"
• 2020.01.07 The Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee (中国共产党中央政治局常务委员会) discussed novel coronavirus prevention and control
• 2020.01.14 Chairman, Chinese National Health Commission (中國國家衛生健康委員會主席馬曉偉) internally warned about the possibility of an outbreak
• 2020.01.15 Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (中國疾控中心衛生應急中心主任李群) told CCTV that there is little risk in people to people infection
• 2020.01.19 Wuhan held a grand party (第二十屆萬家宴) participated by 40,000 families
• 2020.01.19 A US based blogger, who Dr Yan leaked information to, published Dr Yan's findings in the Chinese media
• 2020.01.20, Zhong Nanshan (钟南山) declared the potential for human-to-human transmission
• 2020.01.20 President Xi openly talked about the epidemic
• 2020.01.21 Xu et al published in Life Sciences on the virus
• 2020.01.23 Zhou et al published in bioRxiv on clinical features
• 2020.01.23 Wuhan lockdown
• 2020.01.24 Huang et al published in Lancet Conference Alerts
• 2020.01.25 Chinese New Year
• 2020.01.28 Arrest of Charles Lieber (Harvard Professor) for lying about Chinese government ties
• 2020.01.29 Cao et al published in medRxiv on R0
• 2020.01.31 Wu et al published in Lancet Conference Alerts
• 2020.01.31 Pradhan et al published in Bioxriv on the RNA sequence, but this paper was later withdrawn
• 2020.02.07 Dr Li Wenliang (李文亮), Wuhan whistleblower died
• 2020.02.11 WHO Chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (谭德塞) named the new coronavirus COVID-19
• 2020.03.09 Italy and Saudi Arabia lockdown
• 2020.03.14 Spain lockdown
• 2020.03.17 Andersen et al published a paper in Nature suggesting that the virus evolved from nature;
  Since this paper was published, major medium such as YouTube, Twitter banned any suggestion that COVID was lab-leaked.
• 2020.03.19-24 US states started lockdown
• 2020.03.24 UK lockdown
• 2020.04.07 Japan lockdown
• 2020.04.08 Peter Forster et al published in PNAS on spread of the virus based on (RNA) phylogenetic analysis
• 2020.04.14 US President Trump stops contribution to WHO
• 2020.04.28 Dr Li-Meng Yan (閻麗夢) fled to US
• 2020.05.14 Grifoni et al published research on T Cell responses
• 2020.07.03 Korber et al published mutation D614G (first submitted 2020.04.29)
• 2020.07.10 Fox News released interview with Dr Li-Meng Yan (閻麗夢)
• 2020.08.04 Professor Tritto published book (in Italian) suggesting that COVID 19 was created in China Lab (blog in English)
• 2020.08.11 Bennon Warroom 327 reacted to Tritto's book, with Steven Mosher and Dr Li-Meng Yan (閻麗夢)
• 2023.01.27 US Senate produced a report suggesting that the pandemic was "more likely than not the result of a research-related incident"
• 2023.05.23-07.04 BBC 4 produced a series of reports to investigate the origin of COVID
• 2023.06.13 Professor Robert Garry, one of the authors in the influential paper (with Andersen 2020.03.17) that cast the lab-leak hypothesis as a conspiaracy theory, admitted that they went too far

Publications and other resources:

• COVID-19 statistics
• WHO updates on COVID-19
• Xin Xu, Ping Chen, Jingfang Wang, Jiannan Feng, Hui Zhou, Xuan Li, Wu Zhong & Pei Hao, Evolution of the novel coronavirus from the ongoing Wuhan outbreak and modeling of its spike protein for risk of human transmission, Life Sciences, Science China, 21st January 2020
• Peng ZHOU et al., Discovery of a novel coronavirus associated with the recent pneumonia outbreak in humans and its potential bat origin, bioRxiv, published online 23rd January 2020
• Chaolin HUANG et al., Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, The Lancet Conference Alerts, 24th January 2020
• Zhidong CAO, Qingpeng Zhang, Xin Lu, el al., Estimating the effective reproduction number of the 2019-nCoV in China. medRxiv, 29th January 2020
• Joseph T Wu, Kathy Leung & Gabriel M Leung, Nowcasting and forecasting the potential domestic and international spread of the 2019-nCoV outbreak originating in Wuhan, China: a modelling study, The Lancet Conference Alerts, 31st January 2020
• Prashant Pradhan et al., Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag, Bioxriv, published online 31st January 2020 [this paper was later withdrawn]
• Peter Forster, Lucy Forster, Colin Renfrew and Michael Forster, Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 8 April 2020
• B. Korber et al, Tracking changes in SARS-CoV-2 Spike: evidence that D614G increases infectivity of the COVID-19 virus, Cell, 3 July 2020 {Mutation from D614 to G614}
• Fox News interview with Dr Li-Meng Yan (閻麗夢)
• A. Grifoni et al, Targets of T Cell Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus in Humans with COVID-19 Disease and Unexposed Individuals, Cell, Vol.181, Issue 7, June 25, 2020, 1489-1501 (published on line 14 May 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.05.015) (Summary by Dr Rex on YouTube in Cantonese)
• Tritto, Cina COVID 19: La Chimera che ha cambiato il Mondo (China COCID 19: The chimera that changed the world), Edizioni Cantagalli, Siena, 4 August 2020
• Bennon Warroom 327 (YouTube) with Steven Mosher and Dr. Li Meng Yan
• 2020.08.11 Bennon Warroom 327 reacted to Tritto's book, with Steven Mosher and Dr Li-Meng Yan (閻麗夢)
• Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes & Robert F. Garry, The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 Nature Correspondence, 17 March 2020
• The Muddy Waters Group, US Senate Muddy Waters: The origins of COVID-19 27 January 2023 (Summarized by Dr John Campbell's YouTube video)
• BBC 4: Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin:
  Episode 1: Batshit, 2021.05.30
  Episode 2: A Question of Trust, 2023.06.06
  Episode 3: Uncertainty and Trump, 2023.06.12
  Episode 4: Mission: Impossible, 2023.06.12
  Episode 5: Labs, Safety, and Risk, 2023.06.27
  Episode 6: Back to the Market, 2023.07.03