January 2020 started off with Impeachment of President in the House and rising concerns of the Corona Virus. It ends with a vote coming up in the Senate.
Trump Administration Restricts Entry Into US From China
200131-The New York Times reported that the Trump administration will begin restricting flights from China because of the Corona Virus.
Flights will be funneled into just a few airports.Foreign Nationals who have been in China in the past 14 are restricted, unless they are citizens or permanent residents of the United States.
China Has Begun Using Drones Patrolling The Streets to Keep Citizens In Line
200131 – The Washington Examiner is reporting that the Chinese government is using drones, equipped with speakers to swoop down and instruct citizens that they should be wearing a face mask.
It is conceivable that drones in the future could be used for crowd control and other uses.
With the Genome of Corona Virus now available - DNA Sleuths trace it's Origins
200124 – Stat News reported that researchers have made progress on the deep dive of the virus known as 2019-nCoV.
Applying ‘ballpark’ rates of viral evolution it is estimated the Adam(or Eve) virus from which all others descended first appeared between Oct 30 – Nov 29, 2019.
Because of the lack of genome diversity researchers believe this virus to be a one time jump.
China Decodes the Corona Virus Sequence and makes it available for Research
200113 – NCBI Insights reported that the complete Corona Virus complete genome from the Wuhan outbreak has been isolated and is available for researcher to download from GenBank.
A copy of the download is available HERE.