I believe it's pretty self explanatory...
It states the first diagnosed patient, and not the actual location of source...
It even says the "region and country of origin" in the part you quoted from the article.. Which is exactly what I said, that we already know the "region and country of origin"..
So, what do you find confusing with Wuhan Province in China?
I may need to remind you that the incubation period of this illness is between 4-14 days sometimes up to 21 days, sometimes asymptomatic.
Diagnosing a patient after an incubation period does not a source make.
Contact tracing a man with Alzheimer disease would be like unraveling a ball of string..
He is the first person who presented that they know of presently.
It is more likely that he caught it from someone who went to a local market nearby and brought it home.
Given his age and health condition, he was more prone to developing more serious symptoms requiring hospitalisation.
You seem to be suggesting that the Covid-19 virus originated, as Trump does
No, I am saying that all evidence, plus the fact that the first wave of people flooding into hospitals started in Wuhan and not in another country, gives enough of an indication that it started there. Trump has rambled about labs and whatnot. So either you have issues reading and comprehending or you are trolling.
These conspiracy theories being promoted by the USA have no founding in science... yet.
So why are
you alluding to said conspiracies here?
To help people get a grip on this issue:
COVID-19:
- Spreaders can be asymptomatic and can come from and travel from any place in the world.
- Spreaders usually have an incubation period of between 4 -14 days before symptoms emerge.
- Currently there are at least two strains of COVID-19 being studied. One more deadly than the other. This "mutation" apparently complicates vaccine research.
Making a claim of source of origin is not that easy... if one wishes to follow the line taken by the popular press then by all means conclude as you wish to...but that is not science...
Are you suggesting the "spreader" arrived from overseas and the virus lay in wait to spread to people in Wuhan first?
We know where it originated and timeframe.
You seem to have taken a story about the first case in France in December and now seem to be alluding that it must have started elsewhere.. They know it was spreading through Wuhan in November as that was when the first people were presenting with symptoms in China. It was not doing the same elsewhere. Understand now?
If the origin of this pandemic was indeed the Wuhan wet market and given the huge loss of life and damage to the Chinese economy, why would they allow ( with WHO agreement) the wet markets to reopen with their wild life produce?
Were you still eating pork during the swine flu pandemic? Chicken during the bird flu pandemic?
Those products were still being sold in supermarkets, markets and butchers.
It makes no logical sense, to me and others, to reopen wild life sales when those sales are promoting such a huge risk to the Chinese economy and people...
It is their choice.
It would be hugely in the Chinese governments self interest to ban the sale of wild life from fresh produce markets. IMO. but they haven't.
Why not, do you think?
Because it is a part of their culture and diet.
They did not ban duck hunting in Australia during the bird flu pandemic.
