Timeline of China’s COVID-19 Vaccine Development Raises Serious Concerns

Timeline of China’s COVID-19 Vaccine Development Raises Serious Concerns
A nurse holds a vial of China's Sinopharm coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a health center in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 7, 2021. Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters
Cheng Xiaonong
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Since the CCP virus began spreading in China around fall 2019, China’s vaccine development was once ahead of that of the rest of the world. A series of anomalies shows up when analyzing the timeline of Chinese vaccine development, and these anomalies will contribute to international efforts to discover the origins of the virus. In addition, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) vaccine production timeline itself reveals the regime’s attempt to profit from the pandemic.

The Starting Date of China’s Vaccine R&D

According to official data, the first case of the CCP virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19, was identified on Dec. 1, 2019; and by Jan. 21, 2020, only 440 people were confirmed to have contracted the virus. On Jan. 15, 2020, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission’s eighth public health report stated that “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission has been found so far.” If that information was accurate, then it would appear the regime didn’t expect the virus to spread globally, and it wouldn’t have been prepared for such an event.
Cheng Xiaonong
Cheng Xiaonong
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Dr. Cheng Xiaonong is a scholar of China’s politics and economy based in New Jersey. Cheng was a policy researcher and aide to the former Party leader Zhao Ziyang, when Zhao was premier. He also served as chief editor of the journal Modern China Studies.
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