Coronavirus

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RadishRose said:
This very scary especially when I saw this from the article:

Ethiopian Airlines, however, faces questions by some in Africa about why it continues to operate more than 30 China flights a week while other African airlines have suspended theirs.
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Forbes article about Chinese investment in Africa. This is probably the reason for the cont flights.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadesh...china-is-really-up-to-in-africa/#2c2974bb5930

From the article

China is now Africa’s biggest trade partner, with Sino-African trade topping $200 billion per year. According to McKinsey, over 10,000 Chinese-owned firms are currently operating throughout the African continent, and the value of Chinese business there since 2005 amounts to more than $2 trillion,

China needs what Africa has for long-term economic and political stability. Over a third of China's oil comes from Africa
 
Sorry to say that I have no faith whatsoever in official Chinese coronavirus statistics. My guess is that they're drastically under reporting, partly because they don't have full information and even more because it's in their economic interest to downplay the numbers and danger.
 
StarSong said:
Sorry to say that I have no faith whatsoever in official Chinese coronavirus statistics. My guess is that they're drastically under reporting, partly because they don't have full information and even more because it's in their economic interest to downplay the numbers and danger.
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I don't have faith in ours either. Despite spread in Europe from travelers that haven't been in China, our CDC is only testing people with symptoms who have been to China or have been exposed to someone with a positive test.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-criteria.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/clinical-criteria.html
 
AnnieA said:
I don't have faith in ours either. Despite spread in Europe from travelers who haven't been in China, our CDC is only testing people with symptoms who have been to China or have been exposed to someone with a positive test.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-criteria.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/clinical-criteria.html
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At some point the CDC will have to adjust their criteria.

Right now it's easonable to not test every US flu-like set of symptoms for coronavirus. We're still at the stage where when a US doctor hears hoof beats from a patient with zero Chinese travel connections, 99.99% of the time it's going to be horses, not zebras.
 
StarSong said:
At some point the CDC will have to adjust their criteria.

Right now it's easonable to not test every US flu-like set of symptoms for coronavirus. We're still at the stage where when a US doctor hears hoof beats from a patient with zero Chinese travel connections, 99.99% of the time it's going to be horses, not zebras.
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I realize there are lots of other winter bugs that have similar symptoms ....however! we could expand the criteria to people who have traveled to other areas of the world with significant numbers of cases. Those should've been added into CDC testing criteria as cases occured globally. So far, it's China only ...not Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, etc.
 
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AnnieA said:
I realize there are lots of other winter bugs that have similar symptoms ....however! we could expand the criteria to people who have traveled to other areas of the world with significant numbers of cases. Those should've be added into CDC testing criteria as cases occur globally. So far, it's China only ...not Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, etc.
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A cogent argument. Agreed.
 
A KFC worker in China has been infected with the deadly coronavirus, according to a report from China News.

The patient reportedly worked at the front counter of a KFC in an eatery in the Xiaozhai Intime shopping center, in the Xian, Shaanxi province, where the worker's main job involved food preparation.
 
Latest 'speculation' on the virus.

It's believed, by some, that the Chinese are 'fudging' their numbers to keep the death rate at around 2%. Apparently, a couple of provinces that are reporting their own data have a death rate of 4.8%.
I sure don't know the truth, for sure, but I don't buy much of anything China sells.....
 
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