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→Timeline of COVID-19 Outbreak
*17 November 2019 - First Wuhan coronavirus case according to Chinese Communist Party officials searching for 'patient zero'.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-patients-zero-contracted-case-november-2020-3?op=1</ref>
*17 November 2019 - First Wuhan coronavirus case according to Chinese Communist Party officials searching for 'patient zero',<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-patients-zero-contracted-case-november-2020-3?op=1</ref> possibly Huang Yanling, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology;<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2035568207_Yanling_Huang</ref> Matthew Tye reports “Most people believe her to be patient zero, and most people believe she is dead.” Huang Yanling's profile was completely scrubbed from the Wuhan Institute of Virology's website; On February 16, 2020 the Wuhan Institute of Virology denied that Huang Yanling was patient zero. Press accounts quote the institute as saying that there were rumors of her disappearance but that she's alive and well without giving any proof. Chinese internet researchers have been looking for her.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-china-trail-leading-back-to-wuhan-labs/</ref>
*18 November - Wuhan Institute of Virology posted a job opening asking for scientists to come research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats. The job listing states:
{{quotebox|“long-term research on the pathogenic biology of bats carrying important viruses has confirmed the origin of bats of major new human and livestock infectious diseases such as SARS and SADS, and a large number of new bat and rodent new viruses have been discovered and identified.”<ref>http://www.whiov.cas.cn/105341/201911/t20191118_5438006.html</ref>}}
*17 December - First reported death in China <ref>//www.brookings.edu/2020/04/02/the-early-days-of-a-global-pandemic-a-timeline-of-covid-19-spread-and-government-interventions/</ref>
*17 December - First reported death in China <ref>//www.brookings.edu/2020/04/02/the-early-days-of-a-global-pandemic-a-timeline-of-covid-19-spread-and-government-interventions/</ref>
*21 December - Wuhan doctors begin to notice a “cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause.”<ref>http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/a3907201-f64f-4154-a19e-4253b453d10c</ref>
*21 December - Wuhan doctors begin to notice a “cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause.”<ref>http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/a3907201-f64f-4154-a19e-4253b453d10c</ref>
*24 December - Job posting on the Wuhan Institute of Virology website says 'We've discovered a new and terrible virus and would like to recruit people to come deal with it.'<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU&feature=youtu.be</ref>
*24 December - Job posting on the Wuhan Institute of Virology website states:
{{quotebox|'''Subject group main research direction'''<br>
The New Virus Discipline Group focuses on the etiology of new viruses and their infection mechanisms, including bat and rodent virus discovery, early warning and transmission rules research, cross-species infection mechanism and pathogenicity of coronavirus and other important viruses transmitted by bats Research, new virus serology and molecular diagnostic technology.</ref>http://www.whiov.cas.cn/105341/201912/t20191224_5471634.html</ref>}}
*25 December - [[User:RobSmith/Text of article censored by Google translate|Chinese medical staff in two hospitals in Wuhan are suspected of contracting viral pneumonia and are quarantined.]] This is additional strong evidence of human-to-human transmission.<ref>https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/IzzCnz4Yr2jEIYZePiu_ow</ref>
*25 December - [[User:RobSmith/Text of article censored by Google translate|Chinese medical staff in two hospitals in Wuhan are suspected of contracting viral pneumonia and are quarantined.]] This is additional strong evidence of human-to-human transmission.<ref>https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/IzzCnz4Yr2jEIYZePiu_ow</ref>
*Sometime in “Late December” - Wuhan hospitals notice “an exponential increase” in the number of cases that cannot be linked back to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.<ref>https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2001316</ref>
*Sometime in “Late December” - Wuhan hospitals notice “an exponential increase” in the number of cases that cannot be linked back to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.<ref>https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2001316</ref>