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*6 December - According to a study in ''The Lancet'',<ref name="thelancet.com">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext</ref> the symptom onset date of the first patient identified was “Dec 1, 2019 . . . 5 days after illness onset, his wife, a 53-year-old woman who had no known history of exposure to the market, also presented with pneumonia and was hospitalized in the isolation ward.” In other words, as early as the second week of December, Wuhan doctors were finding cases that indicated the virus was spreading from one human to another.
*6 December - According to a study in ''The Lancet'',<ref name="thelancet.com">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext</ref> the symptom onset date of the first patient identified was “Dec 1, 2019 . . . 5 days after illness onset, his wife, a 53-year-old woman who had no known history of exposure to the market, also presented with pneumonia and was hospitalized in the isolation ward.” In other words, as early as the second week of December, Wuhan doctors were finding cases that indicated the virus was spreading from one human to another.
*8 December - CCP officials and WHO later reports say the first patient appeared on December 8.
*8 December - CCP officials and WHO later reports say the first patient appeared on December 8.
* 9 December - [[Peter Daszak]] discusses on a podcast the testing of modified coronaviruses on human cells and humanized mice in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<ref>https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4104828</ref>
* 9 December - [[Peter Daszak]] discusses on a podcast the testing of modified coronaviruses on human cells and humanized mice in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<ref>https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4104828</ref> Daszak told the interviewer:
{{quotebox-float|"You can manipulate them [coronavirus] in the lab pretty easily. Spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus. So you can get the sequence, you can build the protein - and we will with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this. Insert into backbone of another virus, and do some work in the labs."<ref>https://www.peakprosperity.com/forum-topic/nih-and-dr-daszak-and-lab-created-covid/</ref>}}
*10 December - Earliest known coronavirus patients starts feeling ill.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early-coronavirus-missteps-11583508932</ref>
*10 December - Earliest known coronavirus patients starts feeling ill.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early-coronavirus-missteps-11583508932</ref>
*15 December - Dr. Ian Lipkon of Columbia University informed of novel coronavirus outbreak.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/anti-lab-leak-scientists-reverses-stance/</ref>
*15 December - Dr. Ian Lipkon of Columbia University informed of novel coronavirus outbreak.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/anti-lab-leak-scientists-reverses-stance/</ref>