![]() US intelligence was reported to have issued alerts about the contagion that month after seeing communication intercepts and satellite images. The warnings came from a medical branch of the defence agency that felt strongest about a possible lab leak in last month's Biden review of intelligence. Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law in Washington, also said he learned of the disease in mid-December, telling the Los Angeles Times he heard 'from a friend in Wuhan that there is a novel coronavirus and it looks very serious'.ĭutch virologist Ron Fouchier –who has carried out gain of function experiments on avian flu to make it more infectious – told a documentary he discussed the outbreak in the first week of December with his colleague Marion Koopmans, a member of the WHO inquiry team. He also told Netherlands newspaper Algemeen Dagblad of a 'commotion' around that time among infectious-disease experts. 'There were rumours that people had got sick and that it had to do with an animal market,' he said. Then all the alarm bells ring with a virologist.' 'In the course of December it became clear that it was a coronavirus that could be transmitted via the airways.
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