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Jun 24, 2023 · June 23, 2023. Updated at 9:45 p.m. ET on June 23, 2023. The lab-leak theory of COVID’s origin has always been a little squirrelly. If SARS-CoV-2 really did begin infecting humans in a research ...
- Daniel Engber
Also known as an index case, patient zero is a term used to describe the first human infected by a viral or bacterial disease in an outbreak. Advances in genetic analysis now make it possible to ...
Nov 30, 2021 · Patient zero, called n=1 or the index case by the scientific community, arrived at Hong Kong International Airport on 11 November, having flown in from South Africa via Doha in Qatar, on flight QR818.
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- Philip Whiteside
why it’s such a toxic term. By Dr Richard McKay, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Heightened fears surrounding COVID-19 have once again brought the idea of “patient zero” into public consciousness. Ever since it was coined by accident in the 1980s, this popular yet slippery term has regularly – and misguidedly – been ...
Aug 29, 2023 · China maintained a ‘zero-COVID’ policy from early in the pandemic until late 2022 that employed various public health interventions with the aim of COVID-19 containment. Here, the authors use ...
- Yong Ge
Aug 16, 2021 · This remains one of the most rapidly contained outbreaks of COVID-19 in the world during the entire pandemic. Since that first wave, China has been determined to maintain zero COVID with just an ...
Nov 19, 2021 · U.S. releases declassified COVID-19 origins report 05:58. Washington — The first case of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan, China and presented as such by the World Health Organization was actually ...
