A virologist from the University of Arizona detects the earliest case of COVID-19 infection being infected with the coronavirus. The report names a saleswoman at a fish market in Wuhan, China as the first patient. The version was presented in Science by the head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, Dr. Michael Worobey.
According to Warobey's study, the first case of COVID-19 infection occurred on December 11, 2019. This is at odds with the work of the World Health Organization (WHO), which considers the first patient to be a male accountant who first felt unwell on December 8, 2019.
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Warobay is sure that WHO was mistaken, since the patient's first complaints are related to toothache. This is confirmed by the entries in the accountant's hospital card. According to the scientist, this version is convenient for the FBI, which initially approached the case with bias.
“I am sure that the” case of December 8 “was widely disseminated thanks to the reports of intelligence services under the auspices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which initially inclined to the laboratory version of the origin of the virus, “the scientist wrote on Twitter. Warobay expects that his data will lead to a revision of the version of the origin of the COVID-19 virus.
Earlier, there was new evidence of the artificial origin of the new coronavirus infection. Scientists from France and Laos found a genetically similar virus in a bat in western Laos, but it lacked an element that leads to a sharp increase in the infectiousness of the disease.