THE BIG RETORT

The search for the identity of the first person to come into contact with Covid-19 is fruitless... at least for journalists with a "patient zero" in mind.   TheBigRetort A Canadian who died in 1984 was believed to be the first person to introduce AIDS into America and the wider world. But it later transpired that he was not patient zero. Earlier cases dated back to the '70s - by  which time the victim's reputation was tarnished beyond the grave. Similarly the search to find the Covid-19 patient zero lies in that same world. It's in this tiny devastating  domain - where the occupants speak a language few can interpret - where another patient zero will be found. And w hilst it seems possible that the outbreak of Covid-19 may have silently taken place before it made its appearance in a seafood market in Wuhan, it will not be any journalist who tracks down patient zero. That's because any person deemed to be misidentified 'the first' s...