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COVID-19 Timeline April, 2020 COVID-19 Timeline April, 2020 By Dr. Derek Conte Timeline: 1) October 18th, 2019 (one month before first case reported in Wuhan, China): CORONA VIRUS SIMULATION, titled “ EVENT 201”, simulation of possible future event predicts “global pandemic killing 65,000,000 people”: From their website: “Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.” http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/ …conspicuous timing here... For the full film of the “Simulation” (11 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA2B6eAu7vc 2) First real live reported cases: November 18th, 2019, China: “According to a report…on 13 March 2020, a 55-year-old man, a confirmed case of the novel coronavirus, may have contracted the disease on 17 November 2019,[8] but the case was not recognized at the time.” December 1st, 2019, China: “The earliest traceable and confirmed patient started experiencing symptoms on 1 December 2019. He had not been to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market of Wuhan. No epidemiological link could be found between this case and later cases.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_from_Nov ember_2019_to_January_2020 3) January 2nd, 2020: World Health Organization (WHO) announces the COVID-19 outbreak in China https://www.who.int/westernpacific/emergencies/covid-19 4) January 31st, 2020: President Trump restricts travel from China and people who had visited China: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/business/china-travel-coronavirus.html Total U.S. cases 1/22-1/31/2020: 38. Total U.S. illnesses 1/12-1/31/2020: 25. Deaths: “0” https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html 5) March 11th, 2020: World Health Organization (WHO) declares COVID-19 “Global Pandemic”: https://time.com/5791661/who-coronavirus-pandemic-declaration/ 6) Throughout all of March and April: Dr’s. Fauci and Birx continue to lower death projections from 2.5 million to less than 60,000, while Mainstream Media, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, Bill Gates and others, push hard for new vaccines as a solution… a vaccine, according to Mr. Gates, with a microchip that will tell if you have been tested or ever infected. This vaccine may be ready 18 months down the road with the implication that it should be mandatory. Yet Gates, Fauci and Birx continually ignore the very promising use of a simple, cheap, well-established anti-malarial medication with a 70-year-long safe history of use: Hydroxychloroquine, along with a Z-Pak antibiotic and a Zinc mineral tablet. The cost for the entire protocol of five doses? $20.00. Doctors from France and the U.S. have used this protocol with thousands of sick patients and have a 99% cure rate: “Last Wednesday, we published the success story from Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a board-certified family practitioner in New York, after he successfully treated 350 coronavirus patients (now well over 1,000, Ed.) with 100 percent success using a cocktail of drugs: hydroxychloroquine, in combination with azithromycin (Z-Pak), an antibiotic to treat secondary infections, and zinc sulfate. Dr. Zelenko said he saw the symptom of shortness of breath resolved within four to six hours after treatment. Hydroxychloroquine is now being used worldwide, according to a map from French Dr. Didier Raoult.” Dr. Zelenko’s work here: https://techstartups.com/2020/03/28/dr-vladimir-zelenko-now-treated-699-coronavirus-patients-100- success-using-hydroxychloroquine-sulfate-zinc-z-pak-update/ Dr. Raoult’s work here: https://techstartups.com/2020/04/06/french-researcher-dr-didier-raoult-has-now-treated-1000- coronavirus-patient-with-99-3-success-rate/ 7) March 24th, 2020: The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) issues new diagnostic codes to all healthcare providers and centers for COVID-19 and new guidelines for diagnosis and “cause of death” reporting on death certificates: “However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID19 being the underlying cause more often than not.” And this: “Should “COVID-19” be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test? COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death.” https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19- deaths.pdf …this directive will greatly distort upwards the COVID-19 death count nationally. 8) March 30th, 2020: “White House's Dr. Birx agrees with Dr. Fauci that up to 200,000 people will die in the U.S .'...if we do things perfectly' but warns there could be 2.2 MILLION deaths if the country does nothing to contain the outbreak.” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8168775/Dr-Birx-agrees-Dr-Fauci- 200-000-die-things-perfectly.html 9) March 31st, 2020: 30 States have issued “Stay at Home” restrictions. https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/march/american-covid-19-deaths-hit-new-milestone-as-30- states-issue-stay-at-home-orders-to-stop-viruss-spread 10) April 15th: Israeli Professor’s survey “plotted the rates of new coronavirus infections of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Italy, Israel, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Spain. The numbers told a shocking story: irrespective of whether the country quarantined like Israel, or went about business as usual like Sweden, coronavirus peaked and subsided in the exact same way. In the exact, same, way. His graphs show that all countries experienced seemingly identical coronavirus infection patterns, with the number of infected peaking in the sixth week and rapidly subsiding by the eighth week.” https://townhall.com/columnists/marinamedvin/2020/04/15/israeli-professor-shows-virus-follows- fixed-pattern- n2566915?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad&bcid=1 b79efb0d1dfbcfca8dbe136dfdab384&recip=20881332 11) April 20th: Coronavirus tests (non-specific) done in USA as of April 20th: greater than 5 million. #2 Korea: 400,000 12) April 21st, 2020: 44,575 reported COVID-19 deaths to date by CDC in all 55 jurisdictions. “**Total jurisdictions includes 50 states, District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S Virgin Islands.” Total US population: 331,000,000/44,575 deaths = one in 7,426 Americans have died of COVID-19. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/ Now, in light of all the intensity and fear surrounding COVID-19, let us soberly compare it to the seasonal flu: Total U.S. deaths from seasonal flu October 1st, 2019-March 28th, 2020: est. 24,000-63,000 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season- estimates.htm …and last year, estimated seasonal flu deaths were an est. 80,000 deaths. https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/ Now let’s compare COVID-19 with some other serious threats: Number of deaths for leading causes of death Heart disease: 647,457 Cancer: 599,108 Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936 Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201 Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383 Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404 Diabetes: 83,564 Influenza and pneumonia: 55,670 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633 Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173 Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm Understand that COVID-19 is real and to be respected, but fear is not constructive nor will it protect you from illness. Fear, in fact, raises your risk significantly by arresting immune function. A strong immune system is your best protection now and always. Please read last month’s article on the subject. Keep things in perspective. Enjoy your family, eat well, sleep, get some fresh air and be constructive with your time. I believe there are very bright and prosperous days ahead! Remember, we are Americans. Fighting is in our blood. We always overcome fear. God bless all. Our office remains OPEN. Dr. Derek Conte is co-founder of Chiropractic Specialists at 1154 Concord Road in Smyrna. For questions, call: 404-784-6008. For more articles, info, photos, mission trips, go to: drderekconte.com..
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