COVID-19 Pandemic , Started at Wuhan Market, New Evidence Suggests.<br />COVID-19 Pandemic , Started at Wuhan Market, New Evidence Suggests.<br />Research suggests the first documented <br />case of COVID-19 in Wuhan presented by <br />the World Health Organization occurred <br />days later than previously believed.<br />Scientists initially thought the first case <br />of COVID-19 occurred in a man who had <br />never even visited the Wuhan market.<br />CBS News reports experts now claim to have found the first reported case of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan, China.<br />According to virologist Michael Worobey, the first documented case occurred in a woman who had worked at the Wuhan market.<br />The debate over the pandemic's origins has been contentious, to say the least.<br />Worobey was one of a handful of <br />researchers who demanded that the theory of a lab-grown virus be seriously considered.<br />However, after more research, he <br />says there is "strong evidence of a <br />live-animal market origin of the pandemic.".<br />However, after more research, he <br />says there is "strong evidence of a <br />live-animal market origin of the pandemic.".<br />The World Health Organization <br />previously identified a Wuhan <br />man as patient zero, believing he <br />had fallen ill on December 8, 2019.<br />Worobey's research found that the <br />WHO's patient zero had actually <br />fallen ill on December 16, 2019.<br />This means that the pandemic's actual patient zero <br />was a woman who fell ill on December 11, 2019. <br />She was employed at the Wuhan market.<br />Peter Daszak, a disease expert for the WHO, says Worobey's analysis has convinced him.<br />That December 8 date was a mistake, Peter Daszak, disease expert at the World Health Organization, <br />via 'The New York Times'
