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    1796Jenner tests vaccination Shared thread 2020COVID-19 pandemic in France Shared thread 1798An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae Shared thread 2020COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan Shared thread 1979Smallpox Shared thread 2020Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Shared thread

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    January 20, 2020

    COVID-19 pandemic

    The decisive evidence was two people in Guangdong who had never been to Wuhan — they fell ill after relatives came home from the city.

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    Jenner tests vaccination ↗

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    COVID-19 pandemic in France ↗

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