After a US patient got a novel coronavirus and left medical authorities no clues as to its origin, a scientist claimed that the COVID-19 is the first wave of an extraterrestrial biological invasion of Earth.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Wednesday evening that the patient in California who has coronavirus didn't have a travel history in China and other countries with confirmed cases. The patient, according to CDC, wasn't exposed to everyone regarded to be infected.
The affected person is in severe condition, California Rep. John Garamendi told CNN's "OutFront with Erin Burnett.
Garamendi said whether the patient could talk or not is no longer the case since she has already been intubated. He added he's not in the position to tackle more about the issue.
CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said the health agency had already explained to doctors in the United States that an affected person needed to have travel history to China or be a near touch of a person who had been there before being tested.
CNN reported that the new affected person who triggered the guidance change was transferred from some other Northern California hospital last week.
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British scientist says a fragment of comet caused the virus
Cambridge astrobiologist Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe claims that the COVID-19 virus, that's on its peak, may additionally have been resulting from a fragment of a comet that exploded in a brief flash in North-East China in October 2019.
The sudden outbreak of a new coronavirus, in Wickramasinghe's perspective, is very probable to have a space connection. He brought the strong localization of the virus inside China is the most brilliant aspect of the disease.
"[It's probable] that this [comet has embedded an] infective [COVID-19] virus debris that lived in the incandescent meteor," Wickramasinghe said. The scientist took into consideration the seemingly outrageous possibility that masses of trillions of infective viral debris have been then released embedded within the shape of sweet carbonaceous dust.
Infectious agents, according to Wickramasinghe, are deemed to be widely wide-spread in the area, which might be carried on comets and may fall toward Earth via the troposphere. "These, we believe, can and have inside the past long gone on to result in human disease epidemics," he said.
Wickramasinghe's argument not new
This is not the first time that Dr. Wickramasinghe argues that a plague has its origin in the stars. He previously stated that During the 1918 flu epidemic, some varieties of polio, mad cow disease, and SARS arrived on Earth as a part of meteorites or clouds of comet dust.
Back when Dr. Wickramasinghe's was arguing that SARS was from space, a rival expert rebuffed his theories, underscoring that SARS is a coronavirus. The opposing expert said no such virus-or for that matter, any RNA virus-unlike bacteria, is known to be resistant to the kind of radiation present in space.
It is also said that Dr. Wickramasinghe's theories had been almost completely ruled out through the scientific network in general.
Dr. Wickramasinghe's concept, of course, is very just like the plot of the 1971 film and the 2008 miniseries. Andromeda strain, both primarily based at the 1969 novel by Michael Crichton. That ends while scientists finish that they want to ship the virus to publish it.
