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I think it’s time for news organizations to end the practice of having editors decide on the headlines instead of the reporters who write the stories.
— Alina Chan (@Ayjchan) November 21, 2021
Some of the headlines I’ve seen, even in my own case, are reaching new heights of wtf and puts subjects in tough situations.
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Who is First known Corona virus Victim: Wei Guixian Biography, Wiki, Age, Family, Net Worth, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Fast Facts You Need to Know https://t.co/VnoX081VMT pic.twitter.com/QIcYIheJtU
— News BBC (@wikiglobals) March 21, 2020
https://wikiglobals.com/wei-guixian-biography-wiki-age/
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#2: Yet, there was an even earlier case from the Huanan market. Mike notes that the case of Wei Guixian, a vendor who worked in the west market, was not in the WHO report – yet was interviewed by journalists and had lab confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection starting Dec 10/11.
— Alex Crits-Christoph (@acritschristoph) November 18, 2021
#3: Is it possible that SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in Huanan market because doctors were screening patients for a high risk profession? Mike finds no – independently, multiple hospitals from around Wuhan noted a link to the market with patients before contacting officials
— Alex Crits-Christoph (@acritschristoph) November 18, 2021
#4: Finally; still, there were *some* patients in the first half of Dec who can't be contact traced to Huanan market. True of SARS1; the first case had no connection to a market; and the genomics shows that all Dec cases were closely related to Huanan outbreak.
— Alex Crits-Christoph (@acritschristoph) November 18, 2021
This is true for the earliest known case of lineage A, which differs from the virus identified in cases directly linked to Huanan by just 2-3 mutations. They lived just south of the market and shopped at a 2nd market just north it (4 other cases also connected to that 2nd market)
— Alex Crits-Christoph (@acritschristoph) November 18, 2021
Of course, you can then still ask how the virus happened to get to a small market in a city larger than NYC, that just happened to be selling wild animals. Some people still think that was a mere coincidence- well I suspect we'll see more data about that in time.
— Alex Crits-Christoph (@acritschristoph) November 18, 2021
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The 57-year-old woman, identified by the Wall Street Journal as Wei Guixian, was the first person from the now-notorious Huanan market in Wuhan to test positive for the deadly bug.https://t.co/Ha8grtjHPr
— Benedict Exconde (@iskonglasalista) March 28, 2020
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