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COVID-19 TIMELINE: PREDICTION AND DIAGNOSIS

By TATIANA PROPHET

A healthy society should not only have one voice. - Dr. Li Wenliang, reluctant whistleblower, who died of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China, after warning his fellow doctors to be alert in their facilities, on a private chat system. Someone leaked his comments and he was reprimanded publicly by police.

NOVEMBER 9, 2015 RALPH BARIC, AN INFECTIOUS-DISEASE RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a chimeric virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team’s results, which were published in Nature Medicine. The team included four scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one from the Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens in Wuhan, China, one from Zurich and two from Harvard.

How a California woman went untested for coronavirus for 4 days

By Anna Maria Berry-Jester and Rachel Bluth

Just weeks into the federal government’s efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, a new California case has exposed weaknesses in the testing procedures that could be masking more widespread reach of the disease.

A woman in Solano County, California, who hadn’t traveled abroad or had contact with another known patient with the illness was diagnosed with the virus Wednesday, raising concerns that cases are going undetected because of the federal government’s narrow testing protocols.

The patient sought care at a local hospital before being transferred to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento because of the severity of her case, according to a letter hospital officials sent to members of the campus community. Suspecting coronavirus, doctors at UC Davis asked public health officials about testing for COVID-19, the name given to the illness believed to have originated in Wuhan, China.