Posted on 03/29/2020 9:35:29 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3829269/posts?page=1
YEP
Taiwan says WHO failed to act on coronavirus transmission warning
Relationship with Beijing blamed for not sharing alert over human-to-human infection
March 20, 2020 12:01 am by FT reporters
Taiwan has accused the World Health Organization of failing to communicate an early warning about transmission of the coronavirus between humans, slowing the global response to the pandemic.
Health officials in Taipei said they alerted the WHO at the end of December about the risk of human-to-human transmission of the new virus but said its concerns were not passed on to other countries.
Taiwan is excluded from the WHO because China, which claims it as part of its territory, demands that third countries and international bodies do not treat it in any way that resembles how independent states are treated.
The WHO’s relationship with China has been criticised in the past, with some accusing the organisation of overly praising Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak despite allegations local officials had initially covered it up.
Taiwan said its doctors had heard from mainland colleagues that medical staff were getting ill — a sign of human-to-human transmission. Taipei officials said they reported this to both International Health Regulations (IHR), a WHO framework for exchange of epidemic prevention and response data between 196 countries, and Chinese health authorities on December 31.
Taiwanese government officials told the Financial Times the warning was not shared with other countries.
“While the IHR’s internal website provides a platform for all countries to share information on the epidemic and their response, none of the information shared by our country’s [Centers for Disease Control] is being put up there,” said Chen Chien-jen, Taiwan’s vice-president.
https://amp.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6a68
Agree.
I have a good supply (of the 3Ms), but I’ve also got my fabric washed and ironed...and, about to cut out, from the mask pattern.
Making smaller ones for the grands :-)
It also explains the fumigation trucks and the men walking up the streets with fog guns.
They know how their little bio-weapon works.
For sure.
Understood. Thank you for the heads up, Jane.
I don’t get that. Why not have a drive-in service instead? All it takes is one of those Christmas music/lights thingy to broadcast to an AM frequency.
Anyone who has chosen an on-line name like “Professional” isn’t.
You must work pretty hard at your denial.
This has killed more people each of the last few days than the flu does on a bad flu day.
Unless those treatments get rolling it will overtake the flu in a couple of weeks. The whole flu season in just a couple of months.
Intersting post. Thanks. BTTT.
So my county here in GA has around 60 cases. I listen to the scanner and it is slowly but surely has increasing calls for high fever, cough, difficulty breathing. The past how there has been several. At least one said they waiting for CV19 test results, who is an Atlanta firefighter who transported cv patients.
People need to wake up!
“Number coming out very slowly today, I fear they are double checking a big jump. 50,000? Hope it’s not that.”
Let’s pray it is a big drop.
I’m no infectious disease expert, but Covid 19 has to spread by aerosol transmission to be this crazy contgious.
I had to laugh when the expert said masks wouldn’t help us. Then why do doctors and nurses need them so badly?
Or just stream live like our church does.
Plus half the population of Wuhan ran away in January in anticipation of the venerable Chinese tradition of stopping epidemics by massacring everyone in the affected area.
And fomites too.
Yippee! :)
Thank you, Mariner, for Corona Virus Thread #31!
“The virus isn’t nearly as deadly as the flu, but stupidity has its consequences nonetheless.”
You repeat that over and over, but when you tried to put numbers to it you got your ass handed to you, Winnie.
What will be the consequences of your stupidity, do you suppose?
The virus is nearly 20 times as deadly as the flu.
“Any air traveler entering Texas from Miami, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, and the states of California and Washington must self-quarantine for 14 days, Abbott said.
His original order, which included air travel from New Orleans, now includes any road travel from people entering Texas from Louisiana.
On Thursday, he announced an executive order requiring a mandatory self-quarantine for air travelers arriving to Texas from airports in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and New Orleans.
The Texas Department of Public Safety began administering the program Saturday at noon. Travelers must fill out DPS forms and be subject to follow-up check-ins from troopers. The quarantines are for 14 days, or the duration of the stay in Texas, whichever is shorter, Abbott said.”
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