Previous to July 2019, the USA had 44 scientists involved in disease detection and analysis. Trump removed all but 4. If the scientists were left on the job in China, the new virus would have been discovered and contained long before Dr. Li Wenliang discovered it in his practice.
Scientists would monitor the animal markets where the virus can transfer from animal to human.
April 28, 2020
April 28, 2020
By Geoff Brumfiel and Emily Kwong
...But after corresponding with 10 leading scientists (click here) who collect samples of viruses from animals in the wild, study virus genomes and understand how lab accidents can happen, NPR found that an accidental release would have required a remarkable series of coincidences and deviations from well-established experimental protocols.
"All of the evidence points to this not being a laboratory accident," says Jonna Mazet, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Davis and director of a global project to watch for emerging viruses called PREDICT....
The northern boundary of the pangolin territory is just south of Wuhan, China. (click here)
November 30, 2017
By Echo Huang
Around a year ago, (click here) the pine cone-looking pangolin received the highest level of protection against illegal trading by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. While China is supposed to abide by those rules, the country still remains a trafficking hub for the scaly animal.
On Wednesday (Nov. 29), customs officials said they seized 11.9 tonnes (13.1 tons) of pangolin scales—the biggest seizure ever—from the port of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, according to state media Xinhua. Officials said that the seized scales could have come from up to 30,000 pangolins. That is nearly four times the last record-breaking case, in which authorities in Shanghai seized 3.1 tonnes (3.4 tons) scales (link in Chinese) from close to 7,000 pangolins....
February 13, 2020
By Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu
...The pangolin (click here) was reported to be the most likely intermediate host from which humans contracted the novel coronavirus. The pangolin-vector claim was made public on Feb. 7 by researchers at South China Agricultural University who said they found the genome sequence of the coronavirus separated from pangolins to be 99% identical to that collected from infected people....
By Marisa Taylor
Washington - Several months (click here) before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.
The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue. The first cases of the new coronavirus may have emerged as early as November, and as cases exploded, the Trump administration in February chastised China for censoring information about the outbreak and keeping U.S. experts from entering the country to help.
That was a lie. China didn't remove the scientists or prevent them from entering the country.
“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who served in that role, which was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2007 and 2011. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.”
Zhu and the other sources said the American expert, Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases....
The first the Chinese people and the world knew about the urgency of the virus was from an ophthalmologist. Not a research scientist or a doctor involved in tracking diseases in China, but, an ophthalmologist that came to understand the disease that would not react to treatment. The Chinese people were furious at the death of Dr. Wenliang.
There is only one person responsible for the widespread of the virus and that is the president that removed 40 scientists from China and left the people of China without anyone to detect and honestly report the virus at first contact.
Ophthalmologist (click here) who warned about the outbreak of COVID-19. Born in Beizhen, China, on Oct 12, 1986, he died after becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China, on Feb 7, 2020, aged 33 years.
On Dec 30, 2019, Li Wenliang sent a message to a group of fellow doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, where he worked. Meant to be a private message, he encouraged them to protect themselves from infection. Days later, he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau in Wuhan and made to sign a statement in which he was accused of making false statements that disturbed the public order....
