China - COVID-19 - 1st known case traces back to November 2019 - FluTrackers documentation of possible early 2019 outbreak trend

[mcphilbrick]

1st known case traces back to November

https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.html

A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus spreading across the globe. That case dates back to Nov. 17, 2019, according to the South Morning China Post.

 

[sharon sanders]

Some of our posts around the probable original case(s). And these posts were publicly published.


China - The number of pediatric outpatients in clinics has surged across the country including: Qingdao, Nanjing, Ningbo, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan - flu season - December 31, 2019

China - 3 top hospitals and some communities in Qinghai province seeing flu surge - December 26, 2019 (upstream from Wuhan on the Yangtze river)

China - Pediatric outpatients and inpatients in a major hospital have doubled, 50% are respiratory, Luohe, Henan province - December 18, 2019 (4 hours driving distance to Wuhan)

China - Xi'an CDC show that the number of influenza cases has risen rapidly since October and has exceeded the same period of previous years, Shaanxi province - December 16, 2019 (Shaanxi province adjacent to Hubei province)

China - Doctor, 51, with severe pneumonia moved to isolation on Dec. 31 - on experimental drugs - Dongguan, Guangdong province - January 4, 2020 (This doctor became sick on December 2, 2019)

China - Pediatric respiratory cases increased significantly in recent days in Chongqing - November 29, 2019 - weather blamed (Chongqing is adjacent to Hubei province)

China - Pediatric respiratory diseases have increased significantly - mostly pneumonia - at several hospitals in Henan province - weather blamed - November 19, 2019 (Henan province adjacent to Hubei province)

China - Infusion halls of several hospitals filled with fever patients - weather blamed - Juijiang, Jiangxi province - November 6, 2019 (3 hours driving distance to Wuhan - downstream from Wuhan on the Yangtze river)

China - 2000 children admitted each day to Wuhan Children's Hospital - 30% are respiratory fever related due air conditioning, Hubei province - August 9, 2019

China - July 2019 denied H7N9 rumors (2 rumors about Chongqing which is adjacent to Hubei province)

China - Major hospitals seeing small outpatient peak in several disease areas - Jiangcheng district, Wuhan, Hubei province - July 10, 2019


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Please see these other interesting threads:


China - Two hospitals in Shanghai are crowded with respiratory patients, mostly children with pneumonia - November 11, 2019 (downstream from Wuhan on the Yangtze river)

China - Officials deny rumors of "many people" infected with H7N9 bird flu - Suzhou, Zhangjiagang, Kunshan, Wujiang cities in Jiangsu province - September 6, 2019 (downstream from Wuhan on the Yangtze river)

China - Odd entry in search engine, removed link, possible respiratory illness in Hubei province - June 12, 2019

 

[sharon sanders]

Our Dec 30, 2019 thread:

China - Original 2019-nCov news thread: weeks 1 - 4 (December 30, 2019 - January 25, 2020)