Patient Zero And First Patient On COVID-19

 

Patient Zero and First Patient, what is the difference? Actually, according to what I research they are the same. Patient zero is the first patient or first person to be contracted by a disease. On COVID-19 cases, the patient zero according to the news was traced back on November 17,2019- that is one year ago.

 

But in other news, it said there is still no yet exactly who is the patient zero on COVID-19 though there is already determined first cases of the disease. In some other news, it says the first patient is traced back on December 2019 and not November 17,2019.

 

There are also reports that first cases of the disease come from a seafood and animal market in Wuhan but there are also reports and cases of COVID-19 were not derived from the seafood and animal market in Wuhan.

 

“A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus spreading across the globe. That case dates back to Nov. 17, 2019, according to the South China Morning Post. That's more than a month earlier than doctors noted cases in Wuhan, China, which is in Hubei province, at the end of December 2019. At the time, authorities suspected the virus stemmed from something sold at a wet market in the city. However, it's now clear that early in what is now a pandemic, some infected people had no connection to the market. That included one of the earliest cases from Dec. 1, 2019 in an individual who had no link to that seafood market, researchers reported Jan. 20 in the journal The Lancet. Scientists now suspect this coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, originated in a bat and somehow hopped to another animal, possibly the pangolin, which then passed it on to humans. The disease is now spreading between people without any animal intermediary.” (Live Science)

 

“Finding the first person to be infected, or “patient zero,” could allow researchers to trace the virus back to its source. So far, our best guess is that the virus spread from bats to humans. Whether the patient found a year ago was actually patient zero is unknown and likely unknowable, though. Identifying patient zero may have worked in the 2011 thriller “Contagion,” but in real life it’s not that straightforward — especially because many COVID patients can spread the virus while experiencing mild symptoms or none at all.” (Futurism)

 

“Do we know who patient zero is in the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak that started in China?

The short answer is – no. Chinese authorities originally reported that the first coronavirus case was on 31 December and many of the first cases of the pneumonia-like infection were immediately connected to a seafood and animal market in Wuhan, in the Hubei province.” (BBC)

The main point : Patient zero or first patient on COVID-19 was traced back on November 17,2019 as the news said.