You've probably been hearing all too many stories about the COVID-19 virus, but probably not this one—unless you have taken the trouble to check the actual research.

If you think it BEGAN in a Wuhan, China seafood market, you are at best confused—but more probably, lied to.

The truth seems be that while it was FIRST DETECTED in a Wuhan, China seafood market, there were several cases before that—but no one was looking for this disease—so it was undetected for several weeks.

When the Chinese medical system recognized a cluster of symptoms at the Wuhan, China seafood market around Dec. 1, 2020, they realized there was a problem.

The following is based on an article published by several Chinese epidemiological specialists in the United Kingdom's "The Lancet"—one of the most respected medical journals in the world. The article is, "Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China."

Their findings, "By Jan 2, 2020, 41 admitted hospital patients had been identified as having laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection."

Here's a breakdown:
• 59 suspected cases
• 41 patients were infected with 2019-nCoV.

Of the 41 infected
• 27 had exposure to Wuhan seafood market
• 14 had no exposure to that market

A second article, published in the American Association for the Advancement of Science's journal, "Science," on Jan. 26, 2020 ran an article, "Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally."

"As confirmed cases of a novel virus surge around the world with worrisome speed, all eyes have so far focused on a seafood market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the outbreak." But a description of the first clinical cases published in 'The Lancet' on Friday challenges that hypothesis."

The paper, written by a large group of Chinese researchers from several institutions, offers details about the first 41 hospitalized patients who had confirmed infections with what has been dubbed 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

In the earliest case, the patient became ill on December 1, 2019 and had no reported link to the seafood market, the authors report. "No epidemiological link was found between the first patient and later cases," they state. Their data also show that, in total, 13 of the 41 cases had no link to the marketplace. 'That's a big number, 13, with no link,' says Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University."

(Editor's note: Not clear about the confusion between 13th and 14th case—the 14th case was on Jan. 2, a day after the seafood market was closed.)

"Earlier reports from Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organization had said the first patient had onset of symptoms on 8 December 2019—and those reports simply said, "most" cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on 1 January."

"Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city's now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December. 'The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace,' Lucey asserts."

"Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute who has analyzed sequences of 2019-nCoV to try to clarify its origin … posted his analysis of 27 available genomes of 2019-nCoV on 25 January on a virology research website. It suggests they had a 'most recent common ancestor'—meaning a common source—as early as 1 October 2019."

Here's one more article that continues to connect the dots. It's from GlobalResearch, March 11, 2020, COVID-19: "Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US."

This is where I started my research because I was familiar with Fort Detrick, MD, formerly the Army Biological Warfare Laboratories. In past years, it has been suspected of being the source of the Swine Flu and HIV/AIDS epidemics.

The article notes, "It would seem the only possibility for origination would be the US because only that country has the 'tree trunk' of all the varieties. And it may therefore be true that the original source of the COVID-19 virus was the US military bio-warfare lab at Fort Detrick. This would not be a surprise, given that the CDC completely shut down Fort Detrick, but also because, …between 2005 and 2012 the US had experienced 1,059 events where pathogens had been either stolen or escaped from American bio-labs during the prior ten years."

Read the articles. Judge for yourself.

~ Al Zagofsky

P.S.

Here's a video that tries to put the pieces together into a timeline.

Here's a recent article that writes about, "The rocky history of the Army lab fighting COVID-19."

Here's a New York Times article, "Deadly Germ Research Is Shut Down at Army Lab Over Safety Concerns"