Covid Timeline Wiki Project: February 4, 2020

Help me remember what happened on this day four years ago. Please add info/corrections in the comments.

Debbie Lerman

Feb 04, 2024

NYT TOP HEADLINES (above the fold)

China Foresees ‘Test’ as World Shuts Its Doors - Coronavirus Death Toll in Nation Tops SARS
Tensions in Iowa Over Long Delays in Caucus Tallies - Rocky start in Voting
Back from Wuhan, Facing Quarantine and Fear - Informants and Leaks Trail Travelers With Ties to the City

NYT FRONT PAGE PHOTO

NYT OPINION SECTION

Nothing virus-related

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

First daily briefing on novel coronavirus by WHO Director General

“We are also increasing our communications capacity to counter the spread of rumours and misinformation, and ensure all people receive the accurate, reliable information they need to protect themselves and their families.

And we plan to hold daily media briefings.

FDA and HHS

First declaration of emergency as basis for issuance of Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Covid - but not for any specific product, just in general. February 7th is first actual product EUA. The February 4th date is possibly retro-fitted?
Learn more about EUA for Covid vaccines here.
PREP Act, which was actually first declared on March 17, is retro-dated to February 4th.
“The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to issue a Declaration to provide liability immunity to certain individuals and entities (Covered Persons) against any claim of loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the manufacture, distribution, administration, or use of medical countermeasures (Covered Countermeasures), except for claims involving “willful misconduct” as defined in the PREP Act.”

RESEARCH ON POTENTIAL TREATMENTS

Letter in Cell Research, “Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro”. One of the authors is “bat woman,” Shi Zhengli.

“Our findings reveal that remdesivir and chloroquine are highly effective in the control of 2019-nCoV infection in vitro. Since these compounds have been used in human patients with a safety track record and shown to be effective against various ailments, we suggest that they should be assessed in human patients suffering from the novel coronavirus disease.” [BOLDFACE ADDED]

BIOWARFARE RESEARCHERS/VACCINE DEVELOPERS

Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, Eddie Holmes circulate an early draft of the Proximal Origin paper and continue to work on getting the WHO to assemble a group of scientists to look into virus origins.

US Right to Know has a good summary of these goings-on.

Eric Francis Coppolino

Planet Waves by Eric Francis

Feb 9

Here is what I have for 4/4/20. It was a big day in the history of the test.

https://chironreturn.org/chronology/

February 4, 2020 — Just 24 hours after the request is submitted, FDA issues Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) requiring CDC to retest all positive results. CDC finally started to send kits to state and local health labs on February 5.[pw] Here is a crude Washington Post chronology of issues with the CDC test. Also see FDA press release making the announcement.

In the EUA document, the CDC says, "Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV are currently available," we have gone through the described process "to mimic [a] clinical specimen." This is based on the in silico sequence MN908947, published by China one month earlier.

Simply put, the CDC is saying they have no actual sample of the claimed virus, so we created one synthetically, known elsewhere by the federal government as "contrived samples" [see also] composited from many sources and run through metagenomic transcription.

What they mean is that they are using an in-silico or theoretical sequence as the source of the primers in their PCR test for "SARS-CoV 2," and looking for fragments of that sequence in the actual human samples that come in. People who match this contrived virus are said to "have covid" and to be infected with the virus. Yet the CDC's own documents, which surface in April, say that nucleotide fragments detected by the PCR are not proof of infection. [iap] [pcr]

As late as June 21, 2022, the July 2021 version of the document was still listed as the current version, containing the same language. The CDC's and every other PCRassay for "SARS-CoV-2" still uses in-silico sequences as its primers; there is no purified isolate and there are no patient samples of intact virus.

ALSO — During his State of the Union address, Trump mentioned the claimed outbreak. “We are coordinating with the Chinese government and working closely together on the coronavirus outbreak in China,” he said. “My administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat.” It was part of alengthy section focused on health care, beginning with a promise to protect preexisting conditions — despite the administration supporting a lawsuit that

wouldend that protection — and ending with his awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, which was moving in a perverse way. He cried on national TV. [wapo]

ALSO — Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced that Diamond Princess,[bt] which had docked at Yokohama[bu] the previous day,[bv] was quarantinedat sea with PCR 10 positive "cases" on board.

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