Facts are Slowly Starting to Emerge

This abbreviated timeline was published by ABC News on 24 April 2020, 07:12.

• Dec. 31, 2019: WHO says mysterious pneumonia sickening dozens in China
• Jan. 11, 2020: China reports 1st novel coronavirus death
• Jan. 21, 2020: 1st confirmed case in the United States
• Jan. 23, 2020: China imposes strict lockdown in Wuhan
• Jan. 30, 2020: WHO declares global health emergency
• Feb. 5, 2020: Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined
• Feb. 11, 2020: Novel coronavirus renamed COVID-19
• Feb. 26, 2020: 1st case of suspected local transmission in United States
• Feb. 29, 2020: 1st death reported in United States

The first COVID-19 death is reported in Washington state, after a man with no travel history to China dies on Feb. 28 at Evergreen Health Medical Center in Kirkland, Washington.

Two deaths that occurred Feb. 26 at a nearby nursing home would later be recorded as the first COVID-19 deaths to occur in the United States. Later still, a death in Santa Clara, California, on Feb. 6 would be deemed the country’s first COVID-19 fatality after an April autopsy.

If you don’t know what you are looking for, there is little chance that you will find it.  Now with 2020 hindsight the Californians are finding out a bit more about when this WuFlu first arrived.

Two coronavirus-infected people died in Santa Clara County on Feb. 6 and Feb. 17, the medical examiner revealed Tuesday, making them first documented COVID-19 fatalities in the United States.

Officials previously had said the first Silicon Valley death was March 9. But the Santa Clara County medical examiner revealed Tuesday that people who died Feb. 6, Feb. 17 and March 6 also died of COVID-19.[…]

Dr. Jeff Smith, a physician who is the chief executive of Santa Clara County government, said earlier this month that data collected by the CDC, local health departments and others suggest it was “a lot longer than we first believed” — most likely since “back in December.”

“This wasn’t recognized because we were having a severe flu season,” Smith said in an interview. “Symptoms are very much like the flu. If you got a mild case of COVID, you didn’t really notice. You didn’t even go to the doctor. The doctor maybe didn’t even do it because they presumed it was the flu.”
LA Times

‘Likely since back in December’ is quite a bit earlier than January 21 and the first death on February 6 is a month earlier than the March 9 death previously considered to be the original case.

How many other dates will we find are wrong by a month or so?

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