א רעפארט היינט ארויסגעקומען דורך די רעפאבליקאנע פארעין אפעירס קאמיטע מיט א פונקטליכע טיימליין אף עווענטס.די חידוש דא וואס איך האב נאך נאך נישט געזען בעפאר איז אז זיי שאצן אז דער וויירוס האט געליעקט אזוי פרי ווי סעפטעמבער 2019. (אויב דאס איז ריכטיג ברענגט עס אויף א הארבע פראגע, ווי אזוי דער וויירוס איז גווען רעלאטיוו אנדער קאנטראל ביז דעצעמבער?? ספעציעל ווען אום אקטאבער האבן זיך געדרייט אסך אלוועלטליכע ספארטלער אין וואהאן.) לדעתי איז דאס פראבירן צו שאצן א פונקטליכע צייט ווען דער וויירוס האט געליעקט אווממעגליך, אנלעס מען האט קראנטע שפיאנאזש, וואס איך זע נישט אז זיי זאלן האבן.) 2018 – 2019: Shi, Hu, and other researchers at the WIV infect transgenic mice and civets
expressing human immune systems with unpublished novel and genetically modified
coronaviruses.
July 4, 2019: The PRC’s Ministry of Science and Technology orders a review of several
grants, including grant no. 2013FY113500. This is the grant which funded the collection of
hundreds of coronaviruses and bat samples from the cave in Yunnan province.
July 16, 2019: The WIV publishes a tender requesting bids to conduct renovation on the
hazardous waste treatment system at the Wuhan National Biosafety Lab (WNBL). The
closing date was July 31st.
Late August/Early September 2019: One or more researchers become accidently infected
with SARS-CoV-2, which was either collected in the Yunnan cave, or the result of gain-offunction research at the WIV. They travel by metro in central Wuhan, spreading the virus.
September 12, 2019: At 12:00am local time, the Wuhan University issues a statement
announcing lab inspections. Between 2:00am and 3:00am, the WIV’s viral sequence and
sample database is taken offline. At 7:09pm, the WIV publishes a tender requesting bids to
provide security services at the WNBL.
September – October 2019: Car traffic at hospitals surrounding the WIV Headquarters, as
well as the shuttle stop for the WNBL, show a stead increase before hitting its highest
levels in 2.5 years. Baidu search terms for COVID-19 related symptoms increase in a
corresponding manner.
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Late October – Early November 2019: The international athletes return home, carrying
SARS-CoV-2 around the world.
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November 21, 2019: A 4-year-old boy from Milan, Italy develops a cough. His samples
will later test positive for COVID-19.
November 27, 2019: Samples of wastewater are collected in Brazil that will later test
positive for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
December 1, 2019: The CCP’s first “official” case of COVID-19 become infected.
Late 2019: Major General Chen Wei arrives in Wuhan, taking over the WNBL BSL-4 lab.
Dec. 27, 2019: A Chinese genomic company reportedly sequenced most of the virus in
Wuhan and results showed a similarity to SARS. Zhang Jixian, a doctor from Hubei
Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, tells PRC health
authorities that a novel disease affecting some 180 patients was caused by a new
coronavirus.
Dec. 29, 2019: Wuhan Municipal CDC organized an expert team to investigate after the
Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine and other hospitals
find additional cases.
Dec. 30, 2019: Doctors in Wuhan report positive tests for “SARS Coronavirus” to local
health officials. Under the 2005 International Health Regulations, the PRC is required to
report these results to the WHO within 24 hours. They do not.
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Dec. 31, 2019: WHO officials in Geneva become aware of media reports regarding an
outbreak in Wuhan and direct the WHO China Country Office to investigate.
Jan. 2020: Linfa Wang meets with collaborators at the WIV, likely including Shi and Hu.
Jan. 1, 2020: Hubei Provincial Health Commission official orders gene sequencing
companies and labs who had already determined the novel virus was similar to SARS to
stop testing and to destroy existing samples. Dr. Li Wenliang is detained for “rumor
mongering.”
Jan. 2, 2020: The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) completes gene sequencing of the
virus, but the CCP does not share the sequence or inform the WHO. PRC aggressively
highlights the detentions of the Wuhan doctors.
Jan. 3, 2020: China’s National Health Commission ordered institutions not to publish any
information related to the “unknown disease” and ordered labs to transfer samples to CCP
controlled national institutions or destroy them.
Jan. 11-12, 2020: After a researcher in Shanghai leaks the gene sequence online, the CCP
transmits the WIV’s gene sequencing information to the WHO that was completed 10 days
earlier. The Shanghai lab where the researcher works is ordered to close.
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Jan. 14, 2020: Xi Jinping is warned by a top Chinese health official that a pandemic is
occurring.
Jan. 18, 2020: Linfa Wang departs Wuhan.
Jan. 20, 2020: WIV researchers submitted an article claiming that SARS-CoV-2 is natural
in origin. The article renames ID4991 as RaTG13 and contained false information about
when the genomic sequence for the virus was obtained.
Jan. 23, 2020: The CCP institutes a city-wide lockdown of Wuhan. However, before the
lockdown goes into effect, an estimated 5 million people leave the city.
Last Week of January 2020: Daszak and other outside experts edit a letter to be sent by
the Presidents of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Daszak pushes for language to
address “conspiracy theories.”
Jan. 30, 2020: One week after declining to do so, Tedros declares a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern.
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Late Jan. – Early Feb. 2020: PRC researchers, likely those at the WIV, request Peter
Daszak’s assistance in responding to suggestions of a lab leak or genetic manipulation of
SARS-CoV-2. Daszak helps edit the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine’s response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on the
origins of COVID-19.
Feb. 3, 2020: The WIV researchers’ paper submitted on January 20th is published by
Nature online.
Feb. 6, 2020 at 12:43:40 am: Daszak sends the draft Lancet statement, which cites the
Feb. 3 WIV paper, to Wang, Baric, and others asking them to join as cosigners. Within
hours, Wang calls him, informs Daszak that he will not sign, and requests that neither
Daszak or Baric sign.
Feb. 6, 2020 (Afternoon): At 3:16pm, Daszak send a High Important email to Baric,
forwarding Wang’s request, and informing Baric the statement will be “put out in a way
that doesn’t link it back to our collaboration.” At 4:01:22 pm, Baric agrees to not sign the
statement.
Feb. 7, 2020: Dr. Li, who first shared the positive SARS test results with his classmates via
WeChat, dies from COVID-19.
Feb. 9, 2020: The death toll for COVID-19 surpasses that of SARS.
Feb. 15, 2020: First death from COVID-19 outside of Asia occurs, in France.
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Feb. 16, 2020: WHO and PRC officials begin a nine-day “WHO-China Joint Mission on
Coronavirus Disease 2019” and travel to the PRC to examine the outbreak and origin of
COVID-19. Many team members, including at least one American, were not allowed to
visit Wuhan.
Feb. 18, 2020: Daszak statement is published by the Lancet online, which references the
letter from the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine he helped
write and the WIV’s February 3rd paper on the origins of COVID-19. Despite drafting the
letter, Daszak is not listed as the corresponding author.
Feb. 25, 2020: For the first time, more new cases are reported outside of PRC than within.
Feb. 26, 2020: The WHO-China Joint Mission issues its findings, praising the PRC for its
handling of the outbreak.
Feb. 29, 2020: The first reported COVID-19 death in the United States occurs.
March 11, 2020: The WHO officially declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic after
114 countries had already reported 118,000 cases including more than 1,000 in the United
States.
Nov. 17, 2020: As a result of public pressure, Shi, Hu, and other WIV researchers publish
an addendum to their February 3rd paper, confirming that RaTG13 was ID4991 collected
from the cave in Yunnan, and revealing they collected 293 coronaviruses from the cave
between 2012 and 2015.
June 15, 2021: The Presidents of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,
and Medicine release a statement saying, “let scientific evidence determine origin of
SARS-CoV-2.”
June 21, 2021: After public pressure, Daszak updates his public disclosure form for the
Lancet statement. He does not mention the WIV or that the statement was drafted at the
request of PRC researchers.
July 5, 2021: Daszak and 23 of the original 27 authors release an update to their February
2021 statement, walking back their labeling of public debate around the source of the virus
as “conspiracy theories.”