COVID-19 AND THE WORLD FOOD SYSTEM
AHaroon Akram-Lodhi
Abstract
On 31 December 2019, a Chinese government website announced the detection of a pneumonia of unknown cause that was, in the original reports, believed to have had its origin in a wet market in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. In large part it was traced back to the wet market because 27 of the first 41 patients admitted to hospital with the unknown pneumonia had an association with the market. However, by that time the virus was already well-established; the first recorded identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been traced to a patient treated on 17 November in Hubei who had no connection to the market, and France's first case was treated on 27 December in a Parisian suburb.
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Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.16 × 0.4 = 0.07 |
| M · momentum | 0.80 × 0.15 = 0.12 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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