Posted on 02/26/2020 11:31:12 AM PST by Zhang Fei
More coronavirus cases are now being reported each day outside China than inside the hardest-hit nation, the World Health Organization has said.
Just 411 patients were struck down yesterday in China, where 96 per cent of COVID-19 cases have been recorded since the crisis began in December.
But data obtained by the UN-agency show 427 cases were recorded outside China, amid a worrying spike in Italy, South Korea and Iran.
The WHO's director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom admitted the sudden jump in cases was 'deeply concerning' as fears of a pandemic continue to grow.
More than 81,000 cases of the coronavirus have now been recorded worldwide, with the death toll nearing the 2,800 mark.
Dr Tedros said 78,190 cases of COVID-19 were in China, including 2,718 deaths. Two days ago he admitted the country's outbreak had 'peaked'.
In comparison, 2,790 cases and 44 deaths have been recorded across more than 40 other countries. Antarctica is the only continent to not have a case.
'Yesterday, the number of new cases reported outside China exceeded the number of new cases in China for the first time,' Dr Tedros said.
Bruce Aylward, head of a WHO-backed expert mission to China, hailed the drastic quarantine and containment measures taken by Beijing.
He said the country had 'changed the course' of the outbreak, telling reporters in Geneva that other nations were 'simply not ready'.
Dr Tedros acknowledged that the hike in cases outside China had prompted a push for a pandemic to be declared.
'We should not be too eager to declare a pandemic,' he said. 'We are in a fight that can be won if we do the right things.'
But he insisted the WHO would not hesitate to declare the crisis a pandemic 'if it is an accurate description of the situation'.
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It time to stop the Drama Queen Fake New hysterics and lying by statistical manipulations
Here is what the CDC Deputy Director said today.
57 cases in the USA, all contained
Total death Coronvirus world wide: 2711
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Total deaths annually in just the US from Flu:
While the impact of flu varies, it places a substantial burden on the health of people in the United States each year. CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010
I’m really surprised San Francisco hasn’t reported more cases. Lots of international travel to China.
The words “new” and “reported” are important qualifiers here. But yes, it does dial down the hysteria. Something between that and militant complacency is probably the right balance. Calm, vigilant and prepared—is there a word for that?
“I’m really surprised San Francisco hasn’t reported more cases. Lots of international travel to China.”
Yeah.
It’s just not too many people have the infection.
Well less than 1% in even the hardest hit city.
Shirt term pain, long term gain as the lesson as it were is not to put all of your eggs in one “basket”
To me this is a manufactured crisis and it is no where near the “Pandemic” that the Deep State and their minions in the Media had hoped to stir.
Common sense in a supply chain model is not to have a sole source for components or manufacturing, things always change and a monolithic hard wired model will always bit e you in the butt
No resiliency and a kink in the chain means the bike cannot roll
China will pay a price and that is exactly what the Central Banking system wanted to teach them a lesson for stepping out and becoming independent versus under the thumb that allows them to like leeches feed from the model they have imposed
That is changing and this to me is a warning shot as alternatives will appear as they always do and the Country du jour will evolve to one that is not held captive by activities like this
India has the same or greater population yet they are not suffering as China is nor experiencing the “Virus”
Interesting, very interesting
[I’m really surprised San Francisco hasn’t reported more cases. Lots of international travel to China.]
That’s easy when China reports only 5 new cases outside WuHan.
worrying
‘deeply concerning’
fears
pandemic
...
All words used in an article that is actually good news.
[India has the same or greater population yet they are not suffering as China is nor experiencing the “Virus”]
[I think there is a good theory that Coronavirus does not thrive in warm, humid conditions.
Think about it:
(1) No new cases in Singapore. Where it seemed like COVID-19 was on the loose and going exponential there, it instead stopped and there have been no deaths, and most have already recovered. Singapore is tropical.
(2) There seems to be no outbreak in Africa, where China has a massive presence and travel with China is open. Nothing has been reported in India with its subtropical climate. Is this simply due to lack of testing? If people were falling to pneumonia, it would be noticed, right?
(3) COVID-19 seems to affect mainly temperate places in winter.
(4) Cold and flu season is the cold winter months, where the air is dry. Cold, dry conditions seem to be optimum for cold and flu-type viral outbreaks.
This shows several things:
(1) Individuals, organizations and hospitals can probably achieve a lot of protection by humidifying indoors.
(2) Relief may be coming in late spring and summer
(3) COVID-19 may roar back next fall and winter after a summer lull
(4) Authorities would basically have the summer to get their act together and come up with a vaccine or cure fast before fall and winter brings it back.]
Can it travel across the internet like other bugs do?
Where are the hysterics in this article? What are the statistical manipulations?
Yeah, I keep forgetting how big China is.
I don’t believe China’s numbers either. It does appear that they have done a remarkable job keeping the virus relatively contained in Hubei Province, in there mostly in the Wuhan metro area. It would be challenging for our government to do the same if needed.
“COVID-19 may roar back next fall and winter after a summer lull”
That is what the Spanish Flu did.. It is almost spring here in the South..
All the covid-19 threads got me interested in looking up a real pandemic, the "Black Death". It turns out there was an outbreak in San Francisco in 1900. Naturally, it started in Chinatown.
Let’s not push the panic button over the new respiratory virus. It is already known to be far less lethal than SARS, and may not be any worse than the common flu. In any event, it will be managed just fine in the United States.
Rush is on the bull’s-eye about this.
RATs and their media are trying to make something much bigger out of COVID-19, to attack POTUS (and us) with it.
They’re hoping it will be “Trump’s Katrina.” (Sheesh! These people are sick. BTW, that phrase may have actually come from never-Trumper Hugh Hewitt.)
The NIH guy has said repeatedly that the death rate out of China is vastly overstated, because they are not reporting all the cases—hence, THE DENOMINATOR OF THE FRACTION IS GREATLY UNDERSTATED, making the death ratio appear to be much higher than it is in reality.
FOR EXAMPLE: If instead of 80,000 cases in China there are actually 2.7 million (not a stretch at all!), then the death ratio of Covid-19 would be approximately the same as the common flu in the U.S. today, or about 1 in a 1,000.
Well, well, this is excellent news!
And Seattle.
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