For [1], Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before COVID-19 outbreak disclosed: The reports states: """ Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Vir

For [1], Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before COVID-19 outbreak disclosed: The reports states: """ Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, a month before China reported the first cases of COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a U.S. intelligence report. """ > sought hospital care No mentioning of the symptom. > a month before China reported the first cases of COVID-19 I think without mentioning the symptom, we can find probably quite a few patients "seeking hospital care" in a 10km radius of Wuhan Institute of Virology, see how crowded the place was [2] (google map). > citing a U.S. intelligence report Where was the report? Remember which report give the chain of evidences of Iraq's WMD claim? See [3]. Regarding the report "Congress eventually concluded that the Bush administration had "overstated" its dire warnings about the Iraqi threat." I cannot take this Reuters' report seriously without seeing the report. Let's be honest, the implied charge in the report is beyond the the impact of WWII probably (in total economic impact at least). > The newspaper said the previously undisclosed report - which provides fresh details on the number of researchers affected, the timing of their illnesses, and their hospital visits - may add weight to calls for a broader investigation into whether the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from the laboratory. It seems the Reuters' report admit that the original report from US intelligence group do not have symptoms information. > https://imgur.com/a/bBAuXv6 https://imgur.com/a/bBAuXv6 For the proposed paper, I have no knowledge to verify its strength. [1] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wuhan-lab-staff-sought-hospital-care-before-covid-19-outbreak-disclosed-wsj-2021-05-23/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... [2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wuhan+Institute+of+Virology,+CAS:+Hubei+Engineering+and+Technology+Research+Center+for+Viral+Diseases/@30.5390341,114.3489105,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x342ea56945e84d71:0x402ec92fd18fef96!8m2!3d30.5391889!4d114.3507769 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wuhan+Institute+of+Virolog... [3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kve3z/the-cia-just-declassified-the-document-that-supposedly-justified-the-iraq-invasion https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kve3z/the-cia-just-declassi...