It’s a huge effort but the party wants this to end and end now.
I followed the links to the NYT story that said,
“The fatality rate in Wuhan is 4.1 percent and 2.8 percent in Hubei, compared to 0.17 percent elsewhere in mainland China.”
Which brings the $64,000 question: why is it 20x higher in Wuhan? Were only old people or only poor people left after the mayor gave a week’s notice of quarantine?
and from a Guardian article - why is Xiaogan, giving Wuhan a run for its money?
quote from the guardian: “The Chinese city of Xiaogan, around 70km north-west of Wuhan in Hubei province, has become only the second city in China (after Wuhan) to record more than 2,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus.”
quote from Al-Jazerra: “We already ran out of protective suits a few days ago, and now we are using disposable raincoats to offer minimum protection,” a doctor at Xiaogan First People’s hospital in Hubei, who preferred not to be named, told Al Jazeera.”
Both have been under increasing quarantine for just under a month, and 15 days of total lockdown. Are these new cases a result of lockdown with family? or same apartment buildings? what do these two towns have in common?
The death rate is higher, where more people have had the disease for a couple of weeks.
Maybe just the closest real city (thus closer conditions for infection) that the original residents ran to?