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# COVID-19 Virus Timeline
- URL: https://goodoil.news/covid-19-virus-timeline/
- Published: 2020-03-22T02:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-03-26T20:37:04.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: COVID-19, NZ Politics, USA Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

**Orange NZ**

Here are some of my observations regarding Trump Derangement Syndrome and the COVID-19 virus.

The timeline so far for TDS and the virus

- Nov 28 – Possible patient zero (undetected phase of new disease begins)
- Dec 31 – Wuhan officials say something is up
- Jan 8 – [Centers for Disease Control ](https://www.cdc.gov/?ref=goodoil.news)says something is up
- Jan 17 – CDC starts looking at passengers arriving from Wuhan
- Jan 22 – **Trump’s first comment** acknowledging the passengers arriving are being **identified** and their arrival being **controlled**
- Jan 24 – Trump thanks China for transparency (ie. A politically nice way of asking them to be transparent)
- Jan 25-26 – World finds out officially that China has not been transparent at all
- Jan 29 – **US Task Force started**
- Jan 31 – **US border closes** to anyone that has visited China recently. Trump is roundly castigated for being xenophobic.
- March 19 – **NZ border closes to non-residents, non-citizens.** NZ PM hailed as a hero for making a tough decision so early. “Hard and fast”.
- March 19 – Trump announces accelerated testing and use of several existing drugs that seem to reduce the harm the virus can cause to a patient.

The *Independent* [claims that the FDA commissioner contradicted Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-coronavirus-treatment-press-conference-today-vaccine-drugs-us-cases-a9411836.html?ref=goodoil.news), speaking right after him. This is not true. Trump announced accelerated testing and “immediate use” of several existing drugs (the anti-malaria one in particular). The FDA said that a “large pragmatic clinical trial” is to start. This is a technical term that refers to a clinical trial that focuses on finding a correlation between treatments and outcomes in real-world health system practice, ie. one can expect a near-immediate rollout of the anti-malaria drug to half the severe cases in the US. The *Independent* clearly does not know the difference between the types of clinical trials.