Sorry for the prank JMG. I indeed wrote those English words in the yandex translator, copied whatever Chinese text it gave me and pasted here :)
There is some truth to it however. If we have to assign a date for the first known infection, it would be Sept 12, 2019 or before. We have two independent sets of evidences pointing to it.
1. Something happened to Wuhan Institute of Virology around that time, and internet sleuths found all roads around the place being blocked from traffic. Additionally a public website with sequences of bat viruses was taken down at that time.
2. Independently, a number of mathematicians analyzed the DNA sequences of the virus and found the date of first infection 2-3 months before the first officially acknowledged date. One group (Bloom - Fred Hutch) found that the Chinese government ordered researchers to remove early sequencing data inconsistent with their Dec 1st, 2019 infection date from the public databases.
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There is some truth to it however. If we have to assign a date for the first known infection, it would be Sept 12, 2019 or before. We have two independent sets of evidences pointing to it.
1. Something happened to Wuhan Institute of Virology around that time, and internet sleuths found all roads around the place being blocked from traffic. Additionally a public website with sequences of bat viruses was taken down at that time.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/51901/was-the-wuhan-institute-of-virologys-bat-rodent-virus-database-taken-offline-on
2. Independently, a number of mathematicians analyzed the DNA sequences of the virus and found the date of first infection 2-3 months before the first officially acknowledged date. One group (Bloom - Fred Hutch) found that the Chinese government ordered researchers to remove early sequencing data inconsistent with their Dec 1st, 2019 infection date from the public databases.
I linked to both papers in my blog -
https://homolog.us/blogs/bioinfo/2021/06/30/important-covid-related-dataset-disappeared-ncbi-sra/