#DRASTIC
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/who-were-the-first-coronavirus-cases-china-should-help-solve-the-myster

For more details of that little-known Feb 20 paper by Chinese scientists that calculated a likely start in November or even earlier, see:

Last, for a review of the various counts, official and through leaks - including the CDC papers seen by the SCMP, see the Silent Numbers (I keep updating this).

Notice that there are multiple tabs.
- The SCMP tab is SCMP_Mar20.
- Check the CDC tabs too.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Also here is a thread that takes in the China-WHO report and some of the issues with the CDC data, especially around jump on the 1st Jan 20.

pihabeach.micro.blog/2021/03/22/am-i-the.html

The 1st Jan is the day the WHO decided to activate Article 10 of the International Health Regulations which started an incident management process.

A formal request for information under Article 10 had to be sent on the 3rd Jan.

See the timeline:
theindependentpanel.org/wp-content/upl…

@threadreaderapp compile