{"id":10636,"date":"2020-04-03T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=10636"},"modified":"2020-04-03T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:01:58","slug":"china-knows-exactly-whos-responsible-for-the-wuhan-coronavirus-outbreak-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=10636","title":{"rendered":"China Knows Exactly Who&#8217;s Responsible for the Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u2018Where was your patient zero?\u2019 Chinese official speculates AMERICANS may have infected Wuhan at army games &amp; calls to \u2018come clean\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_10637\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10637\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5e6ad9ab2030275eed4e4ff4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10637\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5e6ad9ab2030275eed4e4ff4.jpg 980w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5e6ad9ab2030275eed4e4ff4-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5e6ad9ab2030275eed4e4ff4-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTOS: (L) Members of the US team during the opening ceremony of the 7th Military World Games in Wuhan, China; (R) A medical worker in protective suit prepares for an RNA test at Jinyintan hospital in Wuhan. \u00a9  Reuters \/ Stringer;  Reuters \/ China Daily<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lijian Zhao has demanded US authorities reveal what they\u2019re hiding about the origins of Covid-19, going as far as to suggest the coronavirus may have been brought to China by the US military.<br \/>\nPointing to a video of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield apparently admitting the US had several deaths from Covid-19 before they were able to test for it, Zhao called on the American watchdog to come clean in a tweet posted on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/2 CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vYNZRFPWo3\">pic.twitter.com\/vYNZRFPWo3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lijian Zhao \u8d75\u7acb\u575a (@zlj517) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zlj517\/status\/1238111898828066823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Zhao suggested, calling for the CDC \u2013 and the US in general \u2013 to\u00a0<em>\u201cbe transparent\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and share what they know about where and when\u00a0<em>\u201cPatient Zero\u201d<\/em>\u00a0was first diagnosed.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Redfield acknowledged that some cases of coronavirus were misclassified as influenza as the medics did not have an accurate test for the new epidemic at the time. He did not elaborate on when these misdiagnosed cases first appeared \u2013 saying only that\u00a0<em>\u201csome cases have been diagnosed that way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the absence of any patients\u2019 details or chronology of deaths, speculation has swirled. Zhao\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201ctheory\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in particular focused on the military delegation that traveled to Wuhan in October for the Military World Games, weeks before the city confirmed the outbreak in December. The delegation was part of the 300-member group of American athletes taking part in the multi-sport event\u00a0held every four years.<\/p>\n<p>Zhao is not the only high-profile political figure to voice suspicions about the timing of the Games and the introduction of the coronavirus in Wuhan. Former Malaysian PM Matthias Chang offered similar speculation back in January, zeroing in on the event as the launch point for what he deemed a biological war waged by the US against China.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) states that what is now the Covid-19 pandemic was first reported as a coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, on 31 December 2019. The search for the deadly disease\u2019s origin has been ongoing, with conflicting versions blaming the Wuhan food market and bats \u2013 a local delicacy \u2013 sold there in particular, while others opined humans might have gotten the virus from\u00a0pangolins, an endangered scaly mammal.<\/p>\n<p>Less orthodox theories suggest malicious intent, with the head of Iran\u2019s elite Revolutionary Guards sensationally claiming last week that Covid-19 could possibly be\u00a0<em>\u201ca product of a biological attack by America which initially spread to China and then to Iran and the rest of the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So far, the problem with all of those theories, blaming both animals and humans, is that no direct causal proof has been established, while the identity of China&#8217;s\u00a0<em>\u201cpatient zero\u201d<\/em>\u00a0also remains unclear. And it\u2019s not China alone: in Washington state \u2013 which seemingly identified and successfully isolated its first infected traveler, with dozens of contacts identified and monitored \u2013 the virus somehow began spreading anyway. Even Steve Wozniak, Apple\u2019s co-founder, at one point claimed he and his wife may have been the US&#8217;\u00a0<em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevewoz\/status\/1234575727678435328\">patient zero<\/a>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0after developing a bad cough on return from China. It has since emerged his wife\u2019s diagnosis was\u00a0<em>\u201ca sinus infection,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0however.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/482990-china-coronavirus-us-come-clean\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/482990-china-coronavirus-us-come-clean\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Where was your patient zero?\u2019 Chinese official speculates AMERICANS may have infected Wuhan at army games &amp; calls to \u2018come clean\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}