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Kenney responded by questioning whether Tam was suggesting that the EU’s regulator of medications and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approve things that are dangerous for public use.

“You know,” said Kenney, “this is the same Dr. Tam who was telling us that we shouldn’t close our borders to countries with high levels of infection and who in January was repeating talking points out of the PRC (People’s Republic of China) about no evidence of human-to-human transmission.”

For those of us who have done a considerable amount of reading about the timeline of this pandemic, Kenney’s comments come as a dose of good medicine.

According to a Feb. 15 report in The Lancet, the date of the first Chinese patient’s symptom onset was Dec. 1. Five days later, his wife, a 53-year-old woman who had no known history of exposure to the wet market in Wuhan, where the virus originated, “also presented with pneumonia and was hospitalized in the isolation ward.”

In other words, by the second week of December, Wuhan doctors were finding cases that indicated the virus was spreading from one human to another.

On Dec. 25, two medical staff at the hospital in Wuhan came down with viral pneumonia — more evidence of human-to-human spread.

A timeline with linked sources on China’s coverup was recently compiled by The National Review, and David Staples of the Edmonton Journal compiled a Canadian timeline. Both are must reads but they come with a warning — they are sure to turn your stomach and make you angry.