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2020-02-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Logistical and Technical Exploration into the Origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-13 06:12|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Epoch Times - China’s Top Biowarfare Specialist Helms Efforts to Combat Coronavirus, Army Enters Wuhan to Deliver Supplies.

China’s state-run media reported Feb. 3 that Chinese troops started to assist with deliveries of essential supplies to Wuhan, the coronavirus-stricken city of 9 million in central China’s Hubei Province.

According to China Central Television (CCTV), soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Hubei Garrison in the Central Theater Command deployed to Wuhan on Feb. 2, where their first task was to transport more than 200 metric tons (about 220 tons) of goods to the city’s supermarkets.

The previous day, the People’s Liberation Army Daily reported that Chen Wei, China’s top expert in biological warfare, has been leading the efforts to overcome the deadly, pneumonia-like pathogen for the last nine days.

Chinese authorities confirmed the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) on Dec. 31, 2019, but recently published studies show that the first patient was diagnosed on Dec. 1. So far, the virus has spread to at least 27 countries, while all provinces and regions of China have confirmed cases.

Wuhan is the provincial capital of Hubei. With the virus spreading, all of Hubei and its more than 58 million residents are under quarantine, as well as at least three major cities in coastal Zhejiang Province. The two provinces do not share a common border.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-13 06:20|| 2020-02-13 06:20|| Front Page Top

#2 I've looked for "defensive immunotherapy research" in both Google & Google Scholar - zero results.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-13 06:24|| 2020-02-13 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 There is a third possibility:

The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory's Thyroid Function Study: A Radiological Risk and Ethical Analysis. National Research Council (US) Committee on Evaluation of 1950s Air Force Human Health Testing in Alaska Using Radioactive Iodine-131.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-13 06:40|| 2020-02-13 06:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Reference comment #3; Implies an intentional release as a part of a study? Do I understand correctly?

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-02-13 08:16|| 2020-02-13 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 The General is certainly an, interesting choice, for the position.

Posted by Cesare 2020-02-13 08:24|| 2020-02-13 08:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #4: Yes, "intentional" or accidental, or a combination.... (unexpected recurrence in test population(s). Certainly a possibility. Something to be studied.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-13 08:24|| 2020-02-13 08:24|| Front Page Top

#7 2019-nCoV targets the ACE2 receptor, which is found in East Asians at roughly five-times the rate of other global populations

Now, I'm perplexed.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-13 09:48|| 2020-02-13 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Villages with a population of 10,000 are quarantined over coronavirus fears in Vietnam - the first mass isolation outside of China - after six cases are discovered

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-13 10:07|| 2020-02-13 10:07|| Front Page Top

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