Thank you.
Dr. Khan, I will go quickly to you.
I know you did a commendable job. An article in U of T News said that BlueDot was among the first to warn the world of a potentially dangerous new illness, COVID-19. You rang the alarm on December 31, 2019, before both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the World Health Organization. You also predicted the next 11 cities that the novel coronavirus would hit.
You're quoted as saying, “We didn’t necessarily know it would be of this size.... But what we did know is that it had the ingredients.”
Approximately when were you aware that COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, had the potential for serious, significant, widespread transmission?