Dr. Carol Baker is a professor of pediatrics and of molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Previously, she was head of the section of infectious diseases in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine for 25 years. More than that, she’s the chair of the national CDC advisory committee on immunization practices in the USA. May history remember her famous words at a CDC meeting in 2017:
She died in 2019 but expressed the eugenics mindset of a Nazi.
Event 201 on 10-18-2019 is proof that this pandemic was planned. The WEF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and John Hopkins Bloomberg Institute of Health sponsored a eugenics play, complete with "actors." Team members “playacted” our economic collapse and video taped their responses. Radio Free Asia leaked a story about funeral homes in China working 24/7 to cremate bodies from their NYC location. Among the protagonists of Event 201 was a lawyer-- Avril Haines-- who was the former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency for the Obama-Biden administration during the same time period as Ralph Baric’s experiments at UNC-Chapel Hill. It is clear from Dr. Fauci's patents that Ralph Baric was working on recombinant super viruses, among them SARS and MERS infected with HIV / AIDS plasmids, prepared by Dr. Shi Zhengli. April Haines was later promoted to deputy national security advisor to the White House (2015-2017). She "prophesied" a coronavirus epidemic in a public conference in 2018 and said a "New World Order" was needed to counter it.
Event 201 was in NYC as is Radio Free Asia. However could NYC have been "surprised"?
The Fauci Covid 19 Dossier contains a list of the decades of patents that led to the creation of a "chimeric virus." We do not need to wait around seventy-five years for any new reports to be compiled via the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA]. I certainly don't think those that planned the virus should live out their golden years in peace. Do you? Should they get a golden parachute retirement plan? Definitely Not! Consider the millions dead, destruction of property, and the economic breakdown caused from their little depopulation experiment.
Being chimeric means the virus constantly changes and is like a runaway train. Covid 19 is, in fact, a biowarfare weapon.
Anthony Fauci's Presentation of Gain-of-Function Research on Viruses https://rumble.com/viskb1-anthony-faucis-presentation-of-gain-of-function-research-on-viruses.html Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric at UNC-Chapel Hill Dept. of Virology, and at far right Shi Zhengli are all in China at the 8th International Symposium on Emerging Viral Diseases. [photo below]
Dr. Fauci tested AIDS drugs on orphans who were forced to take drugs by stomach tube: https://tv.gab.com/channel/nationalfile/view/faucis-nih-tested-aids-drugs-on-617b12280e65e114101b42c9 Also read: "The House that Aids Built": https://www.altheal.org/toxicity/house.htm
Dr. Fauci and the NIH tortured animals; the puppies’ vocal cords were cut and the young dogs were placed in ages to be eaten alive by sand flies at a cost of $1.68 million dollars to the tax payers. Image below is from PETA. After being tortured, they were then killed. [If you have ever been to FL and been bitten by a sand flea you know the pain and itching their bites cause. There is no justification on the planet to have tortured these puppies in this manner.]
Dr. Fauci's household earnings exceeded $1.7 million in 2020; that cannot be denied: https://www.openthebooks.com/forbes-disclosures-released-dr-fauci-household-earnings-exceeded-17-million-in-2020--included-income-royalties-travel-perks-and-investment-gains/
But, here's the real kicker: The first CEO of Moderna was Anthony Fauci + Fauci and Gates were roommates at Cornell University. Soros broke up IG Farben [which was involved with the Nazis in WWII] and formed Moderna. https://www.bitchute.com/video/SRZoKBSfq3ID/
Two subordinates of Dr. Anthony Fauci raised concerns in May 2016 that a taxpayer-funded grant may include gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses at a Wuhan lab, but dropped the issue after nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance downplayed the concerns; this fact is borne out in documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) staffers, Jenny Greer and Erik Stemmy, told EcoHealth in a May 28, 2016 letter that a proposed grant “may include” gain of function research, according to documents obtained through a White Coat Waste Project information request.
READ the FULL article: https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/03/fauci-nih-ecohealth-peter-daszak-gain-of-function-wuhan-covid-19/
Being chimeric means the virus constantly changes and is like a runaway train. Covid 19 is, in fact, a biowarfare weapon.
Anthony Fauci's Presentation of Gain-of-Function Research on Viruses https://rumble.com/viskb1-anthony-faucis-presentation-of-gain-of-function-research-on-viruses.html Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric at UNC-Chapel Hill Dept. of Virology, and at far right Shi Zhengli are all in China at the 8th International Symposium on Emerging Viral Diseases. [photo below]
Dr. Fauci tested AIDS drugs on orphans who were forced to take drugs by stomach tube: https://tv.gab.com/channel/nationalfile/view/faucis-nih-tested-aids-drugs-on-617b12280e65e114101b42c9 Also read: "The House that Aids Built": https://www.altheal.org/toxicity/house.htm
Dr. Fauci and the NIH tortured animals; the puppies’ vocal cords were cut and the young dogs were placed in ages to be eaten alive by sand flies at a cost of $1.68 million dollars to the tax payers. Image below is from PETA. After being tortured, they were then killed. [If you have ever been to FL and been bitten by a sand flea you know the pain and itching their bites cause. There is no justification on the planet to have tortured these puppies in this manner.]
Dr. Fauci's household earnings exceeded $1.7 million in 2020; that cannot be denied: https://www.openthebooks.com/forbes-disclosures-released-dr-fauci-household-earnings-exceeded-17-million-in-2020--included-income-royalties-travel-perks-and-investment-gains/
But, here's the real kicker: The first CEO of Moderna was Anthony Fauci + Fauci and Gates were roommates at Cornell University. Soros broke up IG Farben [which was involved with the Nazis in WWII] and formed Moderna. https://www.bitchute.com/video/SRZoKBSfq3ID/
Two subordinates of Dr. Anthony Fauci raised concerns in May 2016 that a taxpayer-funded grant may include gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses at a Wuhan lab, but dropped the issue after nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance downplayed the concerns; this fact is borne out in documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) staffers, Jenny Greer and Erik Stemmy, told EcoHealth in a May 28, 2016 letter that a proposed grant “may include” gain of function research, according to documents obtained through a White Coat Waste Project information request.
READ the FULL article: https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/03/fauci-nih-ecohealth-peter-daszak-gain-of-function-wuhan-covid-19/
One of these photos is from the release of a past biowarfare weapon; the other from COVID.
Can you tell the difference?
The Scientist rushed to redact their article with a disclaimer, after I repeatedly posted it on Twitter and sent it to news stations who refused to discuss it. That one article confirms the decades of patents taken out by Dr. Fauci, Baric and Shi Zhengli to work on risky GOF studies. Nature magazine also posted an article in 2015 and tried to spin facts to hide the obvious connection between UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Virology and Pfzier's compound with barbed wire 47 minutes south in Sanford, North Carolina: https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
More evidence: https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/covid-19-secret-baric-daszak-zhengli
- Here is Shi Zhengli's bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Zhengli
- Here is Ralph Baric's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_S._Baric
- Evidence: technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/
More evidence: https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/covid-19-secret-baric-daszak-zhengli
The virus was made more virulent/chimeric at UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Virology and Pfizer worked on the "cure" 47 miles south in Sanford, NC on the 230 acre campus.
The articles below show the timeline of a "chimeric" ever-changing virus made in a lab under Dr. Fauci at the NIH’s direction; then, a moratorium caused it to be set aside in 2015 due to its danger, only to be restarted in 2017 without our knowledge, moved to the CCP with the help of the Pentagon:
1. How A Tilt Toward Safety Stopped A Scientist's Virus Research:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/07/361219361/how-a-tilt-toward-safety-stopped-a-scientists-virus-research
2. Moratorium on Gain-of-Function Research https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/moratorium-on-gain-of-function-research-36564
3. NIH lifts 3-year ban on funding risky virus studies https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/nih-lifts-3-year-ban-funding-risky-virus-studies
4. [2017] NIH Lifts Funding Pause on Gain-of-Function Research https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research
5. Shi Zhengli: Weaponizing Coronaviruses, with Pentagon Funding, at a Chinese Military Lab https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/shi-zhengli-weaponizing-coronaviruses-pentagon-fundingchinese-military-lab
6. Let us not forget Obama's prediction of a bat virus in 2014. It was easy to predict when he was allowing Dr. Fauci to move full steam ahead with his risky GOF studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDHmXdcdShE&ab_channel=TYTInvestigates
7. Haines prophesied a coronavirus epidemic in a public conference in 2018 too and a New World Order https://principia-scientific.com/david-e-martin-the-fauci-covid-19-dossier/
8. Biden appointed Haines and FDA greenlights to favor Pfizer: https://www.gospanews.net/en/2021/07/23/fda-final-approval-for-the-vaccines-quickly-in-ohio-president-biden-promised-it-to-his-sponsor-pfizer/
9. "Chinese agents tried to kill me with two poisoned fried eggs after I tried to expose truth about Covid," says scientist. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16832888/dr-li-meng-yan-chinese-defector-covid-poisoned-2/
10. Robert Kennedy destroys Big Pharma and Discusses Bill Gates Connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQKWX46lyBg
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LISTEN CAREFULLY to Daszak.
Did you know he is Ukrainian? did you know he studied REPTILES and parasites? Ecohealth Alliance is 45 years old and headquartered in New York City.
1. How A Tilt Toward Safety Stopped A Scientist's Virus Research:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/07/361219361/how-a-tilt-toward-safety-stopped-a-scientists-virus-research
2. Moratorium on Gain-of-Function Research https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/moratorium-on-gain-of-function-research-36564
3. NIH lifts 3-year ban on funding risky virus studies https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/nih-lifts-3-year-ban-funding-risky-virus-studies
4. [2017] NIH Lifts Funding Pause on Gain-of-Function Research https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research
5. Shi Zhengli: Weaponizing Coronaviruses, with Pentagon Funding, at a Chinese Military Lab https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/shi-zhengli-weaponizing-coronaviruses-pentagon-fundingchinese-military-lab
6. Let us not forget Obama's prediction of a bat virus in 2014. It was easy to predict when he was allowing Dr. Fauci to move full steam ahead with his risky GOF studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDHmXdcdShE&ab_channel=TYTInvestigates
7. Haines prophesied a coronavirus epidemic in a public conference in 2018 too and a New World Order https://principia-scientific.com/david-e-martin-the-fauci-covid-19-dossier/
8. Biden appointed Haines and FDA greenlights to favor Pfizer: https://www.gospanews.net/en/2021/07/23/fda-final-approval-for-the-vaccines-quickly-in-ohio-president-biden-promised-it-to-his-sponsor-pfizer/
9. "Chinese agents tried to kill me with two poisoned fried eggs after I tried to expose truth about Covid," says scientist. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16832888/dr-li-meng-yan-chinese-defector-covid-poisoned-2/
10. Robert Kennedy destroys Big Pharma and Discusses Bill Gates Connection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQKWX46lyBg
___________________________________________________________________________
LISTEN CAREFULLY to Daszak.
Did you know he is Ukrainian? did you know he studied REPTILES and parasites? Ecohealth Alliance is 45 years old and headquartered in New York City.
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As I asked David Price of North Carolina on 9/29/2020 on C-span Washington Journal: "Will you sign a bill that puts a moratorium on all Gain-of-Function, so incidents like COVID do not occur again? I'd really like to know the names of the politicians that allowed GOF to be moved from UNC-Chapel Hill in NC with the help of our Pentagon, as Shi Zhengli testified. I hope Rand Paul hold all of them accountable; after all, millions have died due to that eugenics experiment."
They are not "tabletop exercises"...they are acts of premedicated murder.
At the same time EVENT 201 was going on on the very same day...
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/did-the-military-world-games-spread-covid-19/
Opening ceremonies of the seventh Military World Games, in Wuhan, China, October 18, 2019
WASHINGTON – Less than a month before data shows the first Chinese citizen became ill with coronavirus, nearly 300 members of the U.S. military, Department of Defense, and support personnel attended the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China. When the games ended, they returned to at least 219 home bases in 25 states, without ever being screened for possible COVID-19 infection.
According to the Pentagon, there was no reason to do so then, or subsequently. A spokesperson issued a terse email response to the question, saying there was no screening because the event—held from October 18 to 27, 2019—“was prior to the reported outbreak.”
The spokesperson cited December 31, 2019, as the critical outbreak day and that no testing was deemed necessary for any possible exposure prior to February 1, 2020.
Since that email, Pentagon officials have repeatedly declined to speak on or off the record regarding the subject.
Contrary to the Pentagon’s insistence, however, an investigation of COVID-19 cases in the military from official and public source materials shows that a strong correlation exists in COVID-19 cases reported at U.S. military facilities that are home bases of members of the U.S. team that went to Wuhan.
Before March 31, when the Pentagon restricted the release of information about COVID-19 cases at installations for security reasons, infections occurred at a minimum of 63 military facilities where team members returned after the Wuhan games.
A strong correlation exists in COVID-19 cases reported at U.S. military facilities that are home bases of members of the U.S. team that went to Wuhan.
Additionally, the U.S. team used chartered flights to and from the games via Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Washington was one of the earliest states to show a spike in COVID-19.
“I do think that it is a concern that these people were not tested, especially going into an area that might be a center, a huge probability,” Dr. Ravina Kullar, an infectious diseases expert and epidemiologist based out of Santa Monica, California, said in an interview.
“It may have happened before December, that is the unknown factor,” Kullar said. “We still don’t know who is patient zero. The Chinese government is not being transparent enough.”
Kullar is with Expert Stewardship, Inc., a company that promotes infection prevention in long-term care facilities. She is also a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, a medical association representing physicians, scientists, and other health care professionals who specialize in infectious diseases.
She stressed that the Chinese have not cooperated with the international community in sharing critical information, which is one more reason the Pentagon should have tested the athletes.
“I feel strongly about going with a high prevalence to get tested,” she said.
New data continues to emerge that COVID-19 had already infected people in Wuhan in mid- or early November of 2019, weeks after the games’ conclusion. Recent research released from Harvard and Boston University suggests COVID-19 might have been present in China as early as last August, well before the illness was first publicly identified in Wuhan on December 31.
Athletes who participated from other nations—both U.S. allies like France and Italy and adversaries like Iran—have reported suffering from COVID-19 symptoms. Some Iranian athletes died from COVID-19, including some who were in Wuhan, according to news reports not verified by Tehran.
The Pentagon’s reluctance to test athletes returning from Wuhan was not unique. No other nation’s military appears to have tested their participants in the 2019 World Military Games specifically for COVID-19. French doctors examined their athletes upon their return from the games as part of overall exams.
When asked why the athletes and support staff who had been in China were not screened as a precaution once the COVID-19 threat was known in January, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said at the end of an April 14 press conference: “I am not aware of what you are talking about.”
The question and response were not included in the Pentagon’s official written transcript of the briefing, as is the normal procedure. The official video of the briefing goes silent when the question is asked and Esper can be seen—but not heard—reacting to the question.
The full audio and video exchange remains on the C-SPAN video of the event.
As of June 5, there were 10,462 COVID-19 cases in the Department of Defense in the military, civilian, dependent, and contractor categories. As of June 12, 2020, there have been 36 deaths linked to COVID-19 among those groups.
The delegation to Wuhan included 188 athletes, 24 coaches, 18 team captains, 15 medical providers, 10 referees, nine public-affairs officers, seven “senior leaders,” nine CISM (International Military Sports Council), and two State Department personnel, according to DOD documents.
Spokespersons for the various service branches, all of which were represented in Wuhan, either declined to comment on the subject or said that no COVID-19 screening was required for anyone with possible exposure prior to February.
The 2019 Military World Games, branded the “Peace Games,” was the largest military sports event ever held in China. More than 9,000 athletes representing the militaries of more than 100 countries competed in 27 sports, ranging from golf to parachuting.
The issue of testing the athletes and support personnel, who spent weeks preparing for and participating in the games at what is generally acknowledged as ground zero for COVID-19, has grown in importance since medical reports have questioned the official start date for the outbreak. A handful of global news outlets have highlighted the issue.
Scores of athletes from other nations, including France and Italy, who participated in the games reported symptoms consistent with COVID-19 upon their return to their home countries. In retrospect, some doctors said those athletes suffered from COVID-19 and in some cases infected others, according to news reports.
French athletes’ concerns that they were infected by COVID-19 while participating in the games have been called “completely plausible” by Eric Caumes, an infectious and tropical disease specialist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. The French delegation, made up of 406 athletes and support staff, “benefited from medical checks before and during the games with a dedicated medical team made up of about 20 people,” the French military said, according to news reports.
It said that “the epidemic linked to COVID-19 was not known at the time” and that “there were declared cases with the army health service of flu or of hospitalizations during or after returning from the games that could be linked to cases of COVID-19.”
French Olympic silver medal–winning pentathlete Elodie Clouvel and her boyfriend fell ill after taking part in the Wuhan games. Asked on local TV channel Television Loire 7 on March 25 if she was worried about the prospect of potentially having to spend the summer in Japan for the Olympics, Clouvel said, “No because I think that with [Valentin Belaud, her partner] we have already had the coronavirus, well the COVID-19.”
Clouvel, 31, went on to explain: “We were in Wuhan for the World Military Games at the end of October. And afterwards, we all fell ill. Valentin missed three days of training. Me, I was sick too … I had things I had never had before. We weren’t particularly worried because no one was talking about it yet.”
She added, “A lot of athletes at the World Military Games were very ill. We were recently in touch with a military doctor who told us, ‘I think you had it because a lot of people from this delegation were ill.’”
Scores of athletes from other nations who participated in the games reported symptoms consistent with COVID-19 upon their return to their home countries.
Renowned Italian fencer Matteo Tagliariol told Corriere della Sera newspaper that he fell ill almost immediately after his return from Wuhan:
“When we arrived in Wuhan we almost all got sick,” said Tagliariol. “But the worst was the return home. After a week I had a very high fever, I felt that I wasn’t breathing,” added Tagiariol, 37. “The sickness didn’t even go away with antibiotics, I recovered after three weeks and remained debilitated for a long time. Then my son and my partner got sick. When they started talking about the virus, I said to myself: I got it too.”
Ironically, the Chinese government has accused the U.S. military of importing COVID-19 to China during the Wuhan games—feeding disproven rumors that the virus was there simultaneously with the athletes.
The U.S. came in 35th in the Military World Games, behind nations like Iran, Finland, and Slovenia. In the final competition of the games, Air Force Reserve Major Judith Coyle of Joint Base Lewis-McChord finished the triathlon in 2:10:48 to win a gold medal in the women’s senior division and lead her mixed senior team to a silver medal.
I don't believe it was a "coincidence"...do you?
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/did-the-military-world-games-spread-covid-19/
Opening ceremonies of the seventh Military World Games, in Wuhan, China, October 18, 2019
WASHINGTON – Less than a month before data shows the first Chinese citizen became ill with coronavirus, nearly 300 members of the U.S. military, Department of Defense, and support personnel attended the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China. When the games ended, they returned to at least 219 home bases in 25 states, without ever being screened for possible COVID-19 infection.
According to the Pentagon, there was no reason to do so then, or subsequently. A spokesperson issued a terse email response to the question, saying there was no screening because the event—held from October 18 to 27, 2019—“was prior to the reported outbreak.”
The spokesperson cited December 31, 2019, as the critical outbreak day and that no testing was deemed necessary for any possible exposure prior to February 1, 2020.
Since that email, Pentagon officials have repeatedly declined to speak on or off the record regarding the subject.
Contrary to the Pentagon’s insistence, however, an investigation of COVID-19 cases in the military from official and public source materials shows that a strong correlation exists in COVID-19 cases reported at U.S. military facilities that are home bases of members of the U.S. team that went to Wuhan.
Before March 31, when the Pentagon restricted the release of information about COVID-19 cases at installations for security reasons, infections occurred at a minimum of 63 military facilities where team members returned after the Wuhan games.
A strong correlation exists in COVID-19 cases reported at U.S. military facilities that are home bases of members of the U.S. team that went to Wuhan.
Additionally, the U.S. team used chartered flights to and from the games via Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Washington was one of the earliest states to show a spike in COVID-19.
“I do think that it is a concern that these people were not tested, especially going into an area that might be a center, a huge probability,” Dr. Ravina Kullar, an infectious diseases expert and epidemiologist based out of Santa Monica, California, said in an interview.
“It may have happened before December, that is the unknown factor,” Kullar said. “We still don’t know who is patient zero. The Chinese government is not being transparent enough.”
Kullar is with Expert Stewardship, Inc., a company that promotes infection prevention in long-term care facilities. She is also a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, a medical association representing physicians, scientists, and other health care professionals who specialize in infectious diseases.
She stressed that the Chinese have not cooperated with the international community in sharing critical information, which is one more reason the Pentagon should have tested the athletes.
“I feel strongly about going with a high prevalence to get tested,” she said.
New data continues to emerge that COVID-19 had already infected people in Wuhan in mid- or early November of 2019, weeks after the games’ conclusion. Recent research released from Harvard and Boston University suggests COVID-19 might have been present in China as early as last August, well before the illness was first publicly identified in Wuhan on December 31.
Athletes who participated from other nations—both U.S. allies like France and Italy and adversaries like Iran—have reported suffering from COVID-19 symptoms. Some Iranian athletes died from COVID-19, including some who were in Wuhan, according to news reports not verified by Tehran.
The Pentagon’s reluctance to test athletes returning from Wuhan was not unique. No other nation’s military appears to have tested their participants in the 2019 World Military Games specifically for COVID-19. French doctors examined their athletes upon their return from the games as part of overall exams.
When asked why the athletes and support staff who had been in China were not screened as a precaution once the COVID-19 threat was known in January, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said at the end of an April 14 press conference: “I am not aware of what you are talking about.”
The question and response were not included in the Pentagon’s official written transcript of the briefing, as is the normal procedure. The official video of the briefing goes silent when the question is asked and Esper can be seen—but not heard—reacting to the question.
The full audio and video exchange remains on the C-SPAN video of the event.
As of June 5, there were 10,462 COVID-19 cases in the Department of Defense in the military, civilian, dependent, and contractor categories. As of June 12, 2020, there have been 36 deaths linked to COVID-19 among those groups.
The delegation to Wuhan included 188 athletes, 24 coaches, 18 team captains, 15 medical providers, 10 referees, nine public-affairs officers, seven “senior leaders,” nine CISM (International Military Sports Council), and two State Department personnel, according to DOD documents.
Spokespersons for the various service branches, all of which were represented in Wuhan, either declined to comment on the subject or said that no COVID-19 screening was required for anyone with possible exposure prior to February.
The 2019 Military World Games, branded the “Peace Games,” was the largest military sports event ever held in China. More than 9,000 athletes representing the militaries of more than 100 countries competed in 27 sports, ranging from golf to parachuting.
The issue of testing the athletes and support personnel, who spent weeks preparing for and participating in the games at what is generally acknowledged as ground zero for COVID-19, has grown in importance since medical reports have questioned the official start date for the outbreak. A handful of global news outlets have highlighted the issue.
Scores of athletes from other nations, including France and Italy, who participated in the games reported symptoms consistent with COVID-19 upon their return to their home countries. In retrospect, some doctors said those athletes suffered from COVID-19 and in some cases infected others, according to news reports.
French athletes’ concerns that they were infected by COVID-19 while participating in the games have been called “completely plausible” by Eric Caumes, an infectious and tropical disease specialist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. The French delegation, made up of 406 athletes and support staff, “benefited from medical checks before and during the games with a dedicated medical team made up of about 20 people,” the French military said, according to news reports.
It said that “the epidemic linked to COVID-19 was not known at the time” and that “there were declared cases with the army health service of flu or of hospitalizations during or after returning from the games that could be linked to cases of COVID-19.”
French Olympic silver medal–winning pentathlete Elodie Clouvel and her boyfriend fell ill after taking part in the Wuhan games. Asked on local TV channel Television Loire 7 on March 25 if she was worried about the prospect of potentially having to spend the summer in Japan for the Olympics, Clouvel said, “No because I think that with [Valentin Belaud, her partner] we have already had the coronavirus, well the COVID-19.”
Clouvel, 31, went on to explain: “We were in Wuhan for the World Military Games at the end of October. And afterwards, we all fell ill. Valentin missed three days of training. Me, I was sick too … I had things I had never had before. We weren’t particularly worried because no one was talking about it yet.”
She added, “A lot of athletes at the World Military Games were very ill. We were recently in touch with a military doctor who told us, ‘I think you had it because a lot of people from this delegation were ill.’”
Scores of athletes from other nations who participated in the games reported symptoms consistent with COVID-19 upon their return to their home countries.
Renowned Italian fencer Matteo Tagliariol told Corriere della Sera newspaper that he fell ill almost immediately after his return from Wuhan:
“When we arrived in Wuhan we almost all got sick,” said Tagliariol. “But the worst was the return home. After a week I had a very high fever, I felt that I wasn’t breathing,” added Tagiariol, 37. “The sickness didn’t even go away with antibiotics, I recovered after three weeks and remained debilitated for a long time. Then my son and my partner got sick. When they started talking about the virus, I said to myself: I got it too.”
Ironically, the Chinese government has accused the U.S. military of importing COVID-19 to China during the Wuhan games—feeding disproven rumors that the virus was there simultaneously with the athletes.
The U.S. came in 35th in the Military World Games, behind nations like Iran, Finland, and Slovenia. In the final competition of the games, Air Force Reserve Major Judith Coyle of Joint Base Lewis-McChord finished the triathlon in 2:10:48 to win a gold medal in the women’s senior division and lead her mixed senior team to a silver medal.
I don't believe it was a "coincidence"...do you?
