@article {688044,
	title = {The Early History of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak and Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic: December 2019 to May 5, 2020. A case study resource and primary source reader},
	journal = {Scholars at Harvard (scholar.harvard.edu/kleelerner) },
	year = {2020},
	abstract = {
	This is a highly curated timeline and set of references intended to memorialize the evolution of scientific research and knowledge during a period covering the first public emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 starting late in December 2019 through the early months (until June 2020) of what some became the global COVID-19 pandemic. It is designed to be a scholarly academic resource for journalists and others researching the history of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and COVID-19 pandemic.\&nbsp;Although there are references early in this timeline to nCoV-2019 and/or the novel Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, the virus was soon officially named SARS-CoV-2 (also styled SARS-CoV2) and the disease associated with the virus was designated as COVID-19 (also styled as Covid-19).\&nbsp;While in some cases updates and additional resources are found indented below main entries. Readers should note that many entries and comments refer to intermediate findings and data later discarded or modified by subsequent research.\&nbsp;\&nbsp;In creating this reference, I focused on essential articles from peer-reviewed journals but I have also added in some general news and opinion pieces that were important to understanding the evolution of government and public health policies (or the absence thereof). In general, I have avoided politics per se, but the timeline and archive should be useful to those wanting to provide context for stories (e.g., what was known and when). (more)



	Full text .pdf copies of articles mentioned in this resources\&nbsp;are available for download at scholar.harvard.edu/kleelerner/blog/pandemic-reader. 

},
	author = {K.Lee Lerner}
}
