April 5, 2020

Chinese scientists called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to lead more tests on the people who showed similar symptoms with that of the coronavirus in the US in January to trace the origin of the virus in the country as the US confirmed more than 310,000 COVID-19 cases and as some Americans said online that they had tested positive for the antibodies of COVID-19 and were sickened in the first week of January with a "flu-like illness."

Chinese experts also warned on Sunday that the US federal government is unlikely to cooperate due to political reasons and the ignorance of the pandemic situation in the US is worse than non-transparency, and "blaming China" is still common among US political elites and mainstream media. 

Peter Antevy, a pediatrician and physician in Florida, said on Twitter on Friday that "In January I got very sick (flu-like illness but much worse)," and he "had no idea what it was. Today I checked my COVID-19 antibody status and it showed IgG+ only (sign of past infection)." In other words, it means positive. His tweet with an uploaded picture of the test result has drawn attention and received more than 13,000 likes and thousands of retweets and comments.

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