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Ground Zero: When the Cure is Worse than the Disease

Every disease has its patient zero, and for the coronavirus Covid-19, patient zero was Wei Guixian, a 57 year old woman who worked as a seafood merchant in Wuhan’s Huanan market. At the market, social media images show that meat was traded alongside live bats, rats, snakes, wolf pups and koalas.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 41% of the first 138 patients diagnosed at one hospital in Wuhan, became infected in that hospital. Simply put: nearly half of the initial infections in this hospital appear to have been spread within the...

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