- The World Health Organization will soon publish the findings of its official investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
- Investigators spoke with the man who is currently believed to be the first person to be infected by the new coronavirus, and discovered that the virus may have jumped to people at a food market in Wuhan.
- The person who was presumably the COVID-19 patient-zero became ill on December 8, 2019 and had no travel history.
The first official coronavirus study by the World Health Organization (WHO) was completed a few weeks ago, and the early conclusions do not provide a better explanation for the origin of COVID-19. After several months of controversial planning, the researchers found that the most likely explanation for the COVID-19 pandemic was an animal-to-human transmission. It is unclear which animals may have spread the virus or when the jump to humans would have taken place. In the process, WHO scientists spoke to a potential patient zero. If he were the first person to contract COVID-19, the location of the first case would be changed into a food market in Wuhan, rather than the infamous Huanan market. His story also indicates that the transmission of COVID-19 may have started well before late December 2019, when the first cases were announced to the world.
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WHO officials met the alleged patient zero while visiting Wuhan, The Wall Street Journal reports. The man, an office worker in his 40s, was allegedly infected on December 8. He works for a private company and has had no recent travel history.
“He has a very, in a way, a dull and normal life – no type of things to hike in the mountains,” said dr. Peter Ben Embarek said. The journal. The man’s most important hobby was surfing the internet, said dr. Peter Daszak said. Both officials were on the ground in Wuhan during the infection, with Ben Embarek leading the WHO team. Patient zero told WHO investigators that his parents had visited another local food market, not the one in Wuhan related to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. China said months ago that the Wuhan market is not the source of COVID-19.
The man’s allegation that his parents visited another market declined at the end of the WTO interview. The scientists could not determine other details or identify the market. Daszak tells CNN that the man’s parents tested negative, but that the Chinese authorities still had to locate their contact in the market.
It is unclear when the man’s parents were tested or what type of test they received. There were no COVID-19 tests in early December 2019 because no one was looking for this particular disease. Antibody tests can determine if someone has survived COVID-19 or not, but antibodies often disappear from the bloodstream a few months after the infection.
The report notes that the WTO team wants to identify the market and see what kind of animals were sold there. They also want to see if any of the 174 cases confirmed as of December 2019 – a figure higher than initial estimates – had links to the market. Wuhan has about 400 food markets with a population of 400 million inhabitants.
WHO researchers said they had found at least two species of animals that could carry the coronavirus on the Huanan market, including ferretdas and rabbits.
The researchers also noted that the virus spread widely from the market within days of the first known cases. This suggests that the outbreak could have started somewhere else. “There is clear evidence of simultaneous transmission of the virus elsewhere outside the market,” Thea Fischer told reporters in Wuhan. “It seems less likely that the market is the source of the virus epidemic.” Fisher is a Danish epidemiologist and a member of the WHO team.
This particular 40-year-old man might not be patient. Some researchers say that an older man became ill on December 1, 2019. A doctor who treated him said the man had other chronic illnesses and could not speak. His family members estimated the date on which symptoms first appeared. In the coming days, the WHO will publish a summary report which will recommend more studies to determine the origin of the pandemic.
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