A new study from America indicates that people were falling ill with coronavirus-like symptoms in December 2019, but doctors at the time dismissed it as ordinary flu.
A team of doctors from Los Angeles scouring the hospital records from last winter has discovered a series of smoking gun clues which almost guarantee that Covid-19 was present in America well before Christmas.

Belleville Mayor Michael Mel­ham said he has tested pos­i­tive for coro­n­avirus an­ti­bod­ies, adding that he be­lieves he was sick with the virus in No­vem­ber — more than a month be­fore doc­tors in China first re­ported cases of the new dis­ease.

Mel­ham said he was sick to­ward the end of No­vem­ber and suf­fered from chills, hal­lu­ci­na­tions and a “sky­rock­et­ing tem­per­a­ture” af­ter he left the League of Mu­nic­i­pal­i­ties Con­fer­ence in At­lantic City.

“It felt as if I was an ad­dict go­ing through with­drawal,” Mel­ham said in a press re­lease. “I did­n’t know what was hap­pen­ing to me. I never felt that I could be so sick.”

The first known case of the coro­n­avirus in the United States was in Jan­u­ary and in­volved a West Coast man who had been in Chi­na’s Wuhan Province. Health ex­perts now say the coro­n­avirus may have been qui­etly cir­cu­lat­ing in the United States in Jan­u­ary and Feb­ru­ary, when test­ing was rare. None have pushed the time­line back as far as No­vem­ber, how­ever.

Stephen Lendman is a writer, syndicated columnist, activist, News TV personality, and radio show host. He currently writes for MoneyNewsNow.com and VeteransToday.com and hosts, since 2007, a progressive radio show at The Progressive Radio News Hour on The Progressive Radio Network.

Lendman: Throughout its history from inception, the US used banned weapons. It waged a biological warfare against Native Americans, including by smallpox infected blankets. During America’s Civil War, both sides used chemical weapons, including chlorine gas. In WW I and II, the US used banned weapons, the same is true in all its succeeding wars. Today the US uses chemical, biological and radiological weapons in its war theaters. Was COVID-19 made in the USA? Last week, Pompeo falsely accused China, Russia, and Iran of conducting disinformation campaigns about the origin of the highly contagious/potentially deadly virus. Trump turned truth on its head, calling it the “Wuhan virus.”

Evidence suggests it was made in the US, not China, introduced in the country by US dark forces — the same likely true for Iran, victimized many times over by US war by other means. Since 2018, China had significant outbreaks of two strains of bird flu, African swine flu, armyworms that destroyed thousands of hectares of crops, since December COVID-19, and in January a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu. Was all of the above bad luck or US biowarfare to harm China’s economy and increase US exports of agricultural and other foodstuffs to the country? As for shortages of ventilators, face masks for health workers, other equipment needed, and enough ICU beds, it reflects US indifference toward its ordinary people. No shortages exist for its privileged class.

The virus’ spread across the United States is exposing racial fault lines, with early data showing that African-Americans are more likely to die from the disease than white Americans.
SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is highly contagious, even before symptoms appear (SN: 3/13/20). So to curb the virus’ spread and limit person-to-person transmission, states have been issuing stay-at-home orders. But many individuals are considered part of the critical workforce by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and must continue to work. That includes caregivers, cashiers, sanitation workers, farm workers and public transit employees, jobs often filled by African-Americans.

For instance, almost 30 percent of employed African-Americans work in the education and health services industry and 10 percent in retail, according to 2019 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. African-Americans are less likely than employed people in general to work in professional and business services — the sorts of jobs more amenable to telecommuting.
Driving solo to those jobs isn’t always an option. Among urban residents, about 34 percent of African-Americans use public transit regularly compared with 14 percent of white people, according to a 2016 report from the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. Continued use of public transit during the pandemic may bring African-Americans into greater contact with infected people.

Additionally, a disproportionately high percentage of African-Americans may live in places that could increase their risk of exposure. Census data from January 2020 show that only 44 percent of African-Americans own their own home compared with almost 74 percent of white people. Consider a family living in a crowded inner-city apartment, says epidemiologist Martina Anto-Ocrah of the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. “Can you possibly take an elevator alone? No.”

African-Americans’ risk of higher exposure to COVID-19 has historical roots — including legal segregation in schools and housing, discrimination in the labor market and redlining, the practice of denying home loans to those living in predominantly African-American neighborhoods. Those forces have contributed to a persistent racial wealth gap, with African-Americans continuing to struggle to move into neighborhoods with the sorts of socioeconomic opportunities that allow white families to better avoid exposure to COVID-19.

“All the ingredients are in place for there to be a sharp racial and class inequality to this [pandemic],” says Robert Sampson, a sociologist at Harvard University.

In 1954, a prison doctor in Kentucky isolated seven black inmates and fed them “double, triple and quadruple” doses of LSD for 77 days straight. No one knows what became of the victims. They may have died without knowing they were part of the CIA’s highly secretive program to develop ways to control minds—a program based out of a little-known Army base with a dark past, Fort Detrick.

Suburban sprawl has engulfed Fort Detrick, an Army base 50 miles from Washington in the Maryland town of Frederick. Seventy-six years ago, however, when the Army selected Detrick as the place to develop its super-secret plans to wage germ warfare, the area around the base looked much different. In fact, it was chosen for its isolation. That’s because Detrick, still thriving today as the Army’s principal base for biological research and now encompassing nearly 600 buildings on 13,000 acres, was for years the nerve center of the CIA’s hidden chemical and mind control empire.
Detrick is today one of the world’s cutting-edge laboratories for research into toxins and antitoxins, the place where defenses are developed against every plague, from crop fungus to Ebola. Its leading role in the field is widely recognized. For decades, though, much of what went on at the base was a closely held secret. Directors of the CIA mind control program MK-ULTRA, which used Detrick as a key base, destroyed most of their records in 1973. Some of its secrets have been revealed in declassified documents, through interviews and as a result of congressional investigations. Together, those sources reveal Detrick’s central role in MK-ULTRA and in the manufacture of poisons intended to kill foreign leaders.

In 1942, alarmed by reports that Japanese forces were waging germ warfare in China, the Army decided to launch a secret program to develop biological weapons. It hired a University of Wisconsin biochemist, Ira Baldwin, to run the program and asked him to find a site for a new bio-research complex. Baldwin chose a mostly abandoned National Guard base below Catoctin Mountain called Detrick Field. On March 9, 1943, the Army announced that it had renamed the field Camp Detrick, designated it as headquarters of the Army Biological Warfare Laboratories and purchased several adjacent farms to provide extra room and privacy.

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Coincident events between the closure of Fort Detrick Maryland and the outbreak of COVID-19, petition urging the US government to clarify whether the lab was related to the deadly virus.