China needs to develop public health officials that inspect food on a regular basis. The last time a coronavirus began in China it was due to the sale and consumption of wildlife. I find this highly suspicious for food demands in this area of China. China has been working hard to raise their people out of poverty and in this region alone there have been 40 or more cities/towns reaching a standard that brings them out of a classification of poverty.

When a country like China with a population of over 1.3 billion people finds itself losing shipments of food, GOOD QUALITY FOOD, from places like the agricultural lands of the USA, there is a desperation to obtain food. Wildlife in China are hunted if there are people starving.

I believe there is a strong suspicion to be investigated in that the issues of tariffs have caused a food depression in China. If that is the case then the coronavirus could be the result of draconian policies of the Trump administration. 

January 20, 2020
By Weizhen Tan

...The coronavirus, (click here) which causes a type of pneumonia, was thought to have originated at a wholesale seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan. It was first reported in late December....

January 20, 2020
By Gigi Choy and Alice Yan

The outbreak (click here) of a new coronavirus stemming from Wuhan, China, has killed nine people and afflicted more than 400 others ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday during which hundreds of millions of people are expected to travel.

Health authorities (click here) in the Chinese city of Wuhan said another person had died from the recently identified coronavirus infection, bringing the total to four.

It added that 15 medical staff in Wuhan had contracted the virus, confirming that it is spreading by human transmission and raising concerns that people at the most virulent stage of infection – so-called super-spreaders – could infect many others.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it would call an emergency meeting on Wednesday to decide whether the outbreak should be declared an international public health emergency.

The new strain of coronavirus was identified this month after a mystery pneumonia started striking people in Wuhan mid-December. It is so far known to have spread to Thailand, South Korea and Japan in addition to the cases in China, in Beijing, Shanghai and the southern province of Guangdong....

WHO:

On 31 December 2019, (click here) WHO was alerted to several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. The virus did not match any other known virus. This raised concern because when a virus is new, we do not know how it affects people.

One week later, on 7 January, Chinese authorities confirmed that they had identified a new virus. The new virus is a coronavirus, which is a family of viruses that include the common cold, and viruses such as SARS and MERS. This new virus was temporarily named “2019-nCoV.”

WHO has been working with Chinese authorities and global experts from the day we were informed, to learn more about the virus, how it affects the people who are sick with it, how they can be treated, and what countries can do to respond.

Because this is a coronavirus, which usually causes respiratory illness, WHO has advice to people on how to protect themselves and those around them from getting the disease....