COVID-19/Timeline

COVID-19/Timeline (Timeline)
Timeline for the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus (Covid 19) outbreak.

Timeline

2015

• 2015-12-xx - Wuhan Institute Mafia gangs delivering essential goods to Italians hit hard by the coronavirus emergency across the poorest southern regions of Campania, Calabria, Sicily and Puglia, as tensions rise across the of Virology published research on a novel corona virus similar to SARS.

2017

• 2017-01-xx - Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is launched at Davos as partnership between public, private, philanthropic, and civil organisations.

2019

• 2019-07-xx - The CDC orders the Fort Detrick laboratory of USAMRIID to halt operations immediately, citing safety concerns.

• 2019-10-18 - Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosts a pandemic tabletop exercise named Event 201. It assumes a Coronavirus Pandemic, a 15% collapse of financial markets and the death of 65 million people. Held on the same day as the opening of the World Military Games in Wuhan.

• 2019-11-15 - The CDC posts a job offer for a Public Health Advisor in a Quarantine Program on its website. Open in 17 cities in mainland America, Honolulu and San Juan.

• 2019-11-23 - CDC will allow USAMRIID at Fort Detrick to resume limited research after the recent shutdown.

2020

January

• 2020-01-09 - The first report to link the virus outbreak with the Wuhan seafood market (wet market) by Radio Free Asia. It follows a pattern in which later news reporting is based on initial reports by media organizations overseen by the BBG.

• 2020-01-21:
  • The CDC confirms the first case of COVID-19 in the US, a man in Seattle who had returned from Wuhan. The memo notes that "While originally thought to be spreading from animal-to-person, there are growing indications that limited person-to-person spread is happening. It’s unclear how easily this virus is spreading between people."
  • Anthony Fauci in an interview with Newsmax says that the coronavirus is not "not a major threat to the people of the United States".
  • Helen Chu, a Seattle epidemic specialist carries out some tests on the first cases' contacts, and wants t carry out more, but is told to "cease and desist" by the CDC. When she eventually disobeys this order, in late February, she discovers that "it’s just everywhere already".

• 2020-01-23 - Richard Hatchett for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) announces at Davos funding for three programmes to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.

February

• 2020-02-04 - Helen Buyniski a political commentator at RT, links the outbreak to the 2019 Military World Games.

• 2020-02-18 - Stock markets start to fall significantly worldwide, leading to billions in profits by some traders., leading to allegations of insider trading.

• 2020-02-23 - Chinese media reports on a Japanese TV broadcast by TV Asahi, that speaks of the possibility, that "some of the 14,000 Americans died of influenza may have unknowingly contracted the coronavirus".

• 2020-02-26 - Donald Trump in a press conference relates that thanks to early travel restrictions to some countries, "the risk to the American people remains very low".

• 2020-02-27 - Chinese respiratory specialist Zhong Nanshan again reconfirms that the disease may not have originated in China.

• 2020-02-26 - Mike Pence is announced to be heading the White House Coronavirus Task Force . Hillreporter.com described his behavior as "bizarre" and "disgusting".

• 2020-02-28 - Chinese media points out a American news item about a death in the US on 08. January, that was diagnosed as related to influenza, but corrected to be due to the coronavirus.

March

• 2020-03-05:
  • Los Angeles Times article mentions the possibility that the death rate of the coronavirus could be much closer to that of the seasonal flu.
  • Reuters reports that Anthony Fauci said: "the risk in the United States as a whole is still low".

• 2020-03-10 - The Jerusalem Post reports that the Galilee Research Institute was researching a new vaccine technology for four years that could give immunization.

• 2020-03-11:
  • Robert Redfield, current director of the CDC, states during questioning at the House Oversight and Reform Committee Hearing on Coronavirus Response, that some deaths in the US that were attributed to the common flu, have in fact been due to the coronavirus (at around 01:43:00).
  • Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director general declares that "Covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic".
  • Anthony Fauci says that the Coronavirus is "10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu" during a House hearing. He warned the U.S. must take serious mitigation efforts immediately.

• 2020-03-12:
  • The Trump administration suspends travel from Europe to the US.
  • A Canadian company which is funded by the Pentagon says that it has produced a COVID-19 vaccine just 20 days after receiving the coronavirus’s genetic sequence.
  • Lijian Zhao, current deputy director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Information Department, pointing out the testimony of Robert Redfield and linking it with the US military and the 2019 Military World Games.

• 2020-03-13 - Lijian Zhao tweets two articles published by Globalresearch.

• 2020-03-16 - Spain puts into place a harsh lockdown that does not allow people to go outside except to get supplies or for exceptional reasons.

• 2020-03-19 - COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.

• 2020-03-22 - The UK parliament receives a 329 page piece of Coronavirus legislation which is passed in 3 days.

• 2020-03-25 - Bill Gates is interviewed by TED and mentions coming Digital certificates that prove immunity and therefore allow international travel. The sentence is later retroactively edited out of the video and removed from the transcript. (the deleted sentence: "So eventually there will be this digital immunity proof that will help facilitate the global reopening up.")

• 2020-03-29:
  • Anthony Fauci projected millions of Americans will contract COVID-19 and between 100,000 and 200,000 people could succumb to it.
  • In Sicily a smaller incident happens with customers in a supermarket refusing to pay because they do not have money. The Facebook group National Revolution tries to organise raids on supermarkets. The local Mafia starts to distribute food in the southern regions of the country.

April

• 2020-04-02 - Bill Gates indicates in a CBS interview that mass gatherings, like big sport events, may not come back until vaccination rates have reached an acceptable level: "And so until you're widely vaccinated, those may not come back at all."

• 2020-04-07 - The WHO is warning nations against easing social restrictions and lockdowns.

• 2020-04-12 - Bill Gates is hosted on BBC Breakfast. The whole interview comes across as overly scripted from the first question on. During the course of interview Gates is put into the position of a health expert, commenting about a coming vaccine for "almost all of the people on the planet". Other options apparently not existing.

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