A Very Interesting Coronavirus/5G Timeline UPDATED to add information on Huawei and H.R. 4998 - Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act. 2015 – Wuhan Institute of Virology goes into trial operation in Wuhan, China. July 23, 2015 – A patent application is submitted for the coronavirus by the Pirbright Institute, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Foundation. The patent will be issued in Nov. 2019. Apr. 16, 2018 – It is announced that a large-scale 5G network engineering program will be piloted in Wuhan, China. 3,000 macro base stations and 27,000 micro base stations will be built, with trials expected to start by the end of the year. Apr. 27, 2018 – Bill Gates says that the US government is falling short in preparing the nation and the world for the “significant probability of a large and lethal modern-day pandemic occurring in our lifetimes.” Mar. 19, 2019 – Chinese researchers are caught trying to steal coronavirus from a Canadian lab. Apr. 3, 2019 – Verizon initiates 5G technology in Chicago, the first location in the USA. Other locations where it will be operating by 2020 include Houston TX, Indianapolis IN, Sacramento CA, and Los Angeles CA. Sept. 1, 2019 – Trump begins implementing tariffs on China. Sept. 18, 2019 – The Chinese government conducts an exercise in Wuhan, where they simulate a response for a novel coronavirus strain. Oct. 18, 2019 – A five hour viral outbreak simulation called ‘Event 201’ is conducted in NYC. This high-level pandemic exercise is hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Oct. 31, 2019 – Wuhan, China turns on its 5G technology. Nov. 8, 2019 - US Congressman Frank Pallone introduces H.R. 4998 - Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019, which would immediately ban the purchase in America of telecom equipment from Chinese manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE—and that further would give $1 billion in emergency funding to help smaller rural telecoms ‘rip and replace’ from their telecom systems every single Chinese made piece of equipment they have. It will pass the House unanimously on Dec. 16, 2019. Nov. 20, 2019 – A patent is issued to Pirbright Institute for the cornavirus. Dec. 1, 2019 – China enacts a vaccine law that makes vaccinations mandatory. Dec. 10, 2019 – Zaosong Zheng, a Chinese national, is arrested at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged with attempting to smuggle 21 vials of biological research to China. Dec. 31, 2019 – A deadly outbreak of coronavirus is reported to have occurred in China. Millions of Chinese citizens will be quarantined as a result. Ground zero is Wuhan, the location of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.  Jan. 15, 2020 – Trump signs Phase 1 of a new trade deal with China. Jan. 17, 2020 – The CDC reports the first case of coronavirus infection in the USA after a traveller from China is diagnosed in Seattle, WA. Jan. 28, 2020 – Dr. Charles Lieber, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, and two Chinese nationals are charged in three separate China-related cases. Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber became a ‘strategic scientist’ at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from about 2012 to 2017. He was awarded more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at WUT. Feb. 12, 2020 – Chinese telecommunications conglomerate Huawei is charged in a racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to steal trade secrets. Feb. 26, 2020 – President Trump gives a press conference on the coronavirus, assuring the public that the situation is under control. Feb. 27, 2020 – H.R. 4998 - Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 is approved by a unanimous voice vote in the US Senate.