# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [February 11, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758 "2020-02-11T01:16:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 895
**Author:** ![Jim\_Peebles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Jim\_Peebles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_Peebles)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/895 "2020-03-15T01:25:37Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Here’s an interesting twist–remember the pneumonia cases blamed on vaping last year? There are some Japanese and Taiwanese epidemiologists that think that was one of the earlier appearances of COVID-19, nothing to do with vaping at all. They tied that to another incident that led to the closure of the bio-lab at Fort Detrick–and there were military personnel who went to Wuhan to participate in some military games not long before the coronavirus outbreak began who were hospitalized in China with a mystery infection. So this could be an interesting case of chickens coming home to roost for the US. > > [Check it out.](https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-further-evidence-virus-originated-us/5706078) I certainly do remember, Aleq, and have a thread over on General Questions about it. If it was coronavirus back then, it has been spreading much longer than the main narrative says, and so I am not alarmed about this virus. I think the Chinese freaked out back around the new year because they were seeing a spike in pneumonia cases when people with vape lung hit the flu season. Read that thread and reply with your thoughts. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758)._