[Thread] Necessary corrections to the China-WHO report.
What they will probably fix and what they will not.
TLDR: circular swap of 3 IPCAMS genomes + tampered onset of Wuchang accountant; First patients and first cluster; Some falsehoods in articles
washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
As we said, the problems were with S01, S05 & S11. Absolutely chaotic, but with a little table it is all more clear. Part of the problem is inherited from Ren et al. (2020) who followed different orders in the text and in the genomes for the patients.
16-Dec-19 is the correct onset day for the Wuchang accountant. It was artificially advanced 8 days by CCP officials.
The Wuchang accountant and nephew of a doctor of the hospital (Central) was probably a most convenient 1st case, and Lineage B!
(Image from China-WHO report annex D1 - Xinhua Hospital)
Holmes et al. (2021) also found something was wrong with S01. Although they did not solve the whole jigsaw puzzle (as part of their cherry picking, I guess)
How can they change now the info of the wife of the 62-year-old man (62M) stated in the China WHO-report? Incredible!
62M (some sources said "in his seventies" or "elderly") had that initial onset on Dec 1st (Huang et al., 2020).
But seems that Huang et al. (2020) hid the h2h evidence, if we trust China-WHO report and Xinhuanet.
@TheLancet please clarify/correct/retract.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Thanks to them, Dr. Jixian Zhang alerted of very probable h2h on Dec 27th. But we only knew that -and limited- on Jan 20th, 24 days later.
Shame!
xinhuanet.com/english/2020-0…
62M is also "ICU-01" in Zhou et al. (2020) whose "contact history [with wet market] is unclear"
Why nothing was sequenced? Did they sequenced the wife? Who is the wife? 49F or one of the 3 ICU patients omitted by Zhou et al. (2020)?
nature.com/articles/s4158…
nature.com/articles/s4158…
From the WaPo article:
"Jasarevic said mistakes in the report were due to “editing errors,” but they did not affect “the data analysis process, nor the conclusions.”"
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