Timeline for Did the WHO have evidence of significant human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 prior to January 14, 2020?
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| Apr 21, 2020 at 0:34 | comment | added | barbecue | Hmm, OK, but the question was specifically about the WHO knowing about human-to-human transmission, not knowing about the virus. This seems more like a comment than an answer. | |
| Apr 21, 2020 at 0:34 | history | edited | Daniel R Hicks | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarified partial nature of answer and added New Yorker reference
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| Apr 21, 2020 at 0:25 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @barbecue - It wasn't intended as a complete answer, only a partial one. It shows that people from WHO did communicate info about the virus to the White House staff. We don't know what details were in that communications. | |
| Apr 21, 2020 at 0:14 | comment | added | barbecue | @DanielRHicks The washington post artlcle you linked in your answer. | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 22:12 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @barbecue - Which article? | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 21:48 | comment | added | barbecue | I've read this article and it never mentions anything about human-to-human transmission at all, let alone how significant it might be. | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 21:38 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @Fizz - I should have qualified that better. The article was written by an English professor from the US, living in China. The presence of the virus was fairly well known to (reasonably literate) folks in China by mid-January. And many, like this professor, no doubt had connections overseas, so it was not being kept secret (very much), even though the Chinese government didn't want the severity of things advertised. | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 21:08 | comment | added | days of love iff good genes | This seems to be an unclear (to assume good faith) answer. Your evidence is basically that the US CDC and WHO knew roughly the same thing. (Something I don't disagree with.) But then claim rather vaguely in a comment that "the virus was pretty well known by mid-January". What do yo mean by that? Are you saying they could have inferred enough (in re pathogenicity) from its genetic sequence? Do you have (at least) some expert quotes to that effect? | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 20:44 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | I will note that the article in the March 30, 2020 New Yorker gives some bits of chronology, saying that the virus was pretty well known by mid-January, though it also relates how the government sought to suppress information about it. (Note: This is not a technical article but rather a sort of historical narrative, by someone who was there.) | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 20:41 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @Oddthinking - If the CDC folks at WHO knew about it then presumably WHO knew about it. | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 20:39 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | How does this answer whether the WHO had evidence of significant human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 prior to January 14, 2020? | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 20:00 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @einpoklum - The virus was known in late 2019, it just hadn't been characterized yet. From what I've read in The New Yorker it was fairly well characterized by mid January. | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 19:41 | comment | added | einpoklum | This sounds strange. how can they work on that virus if it hsdn't been isolated/identified yet? | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 19:07 | history | answered | Daniel R Hicks | CC BY-SA 4.0 |