{"id":103828,"date":"2020-03-15T19:45:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T02:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/china-may-have-identified-patient-zero-in-the-coronavirus-outbreak"},"modified":"2020-03-15T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T02:45:50","slug":"china-may-have-identified-patient-zero-in-the-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/china-may-have-identified-patient-zero-in-the-coronavirus-outbreak","title":{"rendered":"China May Have Identified Patient Zero in the Coronavirus Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-may-have-identified-patient-zero-in-the-coronavirus-outbreak.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And others in the research community, like this nuclear physicist at the Large Hadron Collider, are realizing how close they came to catching the virus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p> The first COVID-19 case may have started as early as November 17. A good chunk of my reararch group, and our particular slice of the nuclear physics community, were literally in Wuhan until just a week before this. To think what could have been\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/3074991\/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/3074991\/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/3074991\/coro\u2026raced-back<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dennis V. Perepelitsa (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dvperepelitsa\">@dvperepelitsa<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dvperepelitsa\/status\/1238465923725623298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And others in the research community, like this nuclear physicist at the Large Hadron Collider, are realizing how close they came to catching the virus. The first COVID-19 case may have started as early as November 17. A good chunk of my reararch group, and our particular slice of the nuclear physics community, were literally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}