LAST September 2020, my friend Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan released a book entitled No Vaccine for a Virus Called Racism, not just portraying how President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were politicizing the virus in the lead-off to the US presidential elections in November 2020, but more significantly, presenting a chronology of newspaper and television reports, showing what could be a plausible historical readback prior to the confirmation of a coronavirus in China, specifically Wuhan, in December 2019.

The earliest he could dig up was WJLA-TV, an ABC News affiliate reporting on July 11, 2019 that two people had died and 18 others hospitalized after a "respiratory outbreak" at a Virginia retirement community.

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