Posted on 04/09/2020 3:45:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The true scale of a viral pneumonia outbreak in China is likely far bigger than officially reported, scientists have said, as countries ramp up measures to prevent the disease from spreading.
Fears that the virus will spread are growing ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, when hundreds of millions of Chinese move around the country and visit extended family members living overseas.
Authorities in China have said two people have died and at least 45 have been infected, with the outbreak centered around a seafood market in Wuhan, a central city of 11 million inhabitants that serves as a major transport hub.
However, a paper published Friday by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College in London said that the number of cases in the city was likely about 1,700.
The researchers said that their estimate was largely based on the fact that cases had been reported overseas - two in Thailand and one in Japan.
The US has said that from Friday it would begin screening flights arriving from Wuhan at San Francisco International Airport and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport - which both receive direct flights - as well as Los Angeles International Airport, where many flights connect.
“For Wuhan to have exported three cases to other countries would imply there would have to be many more cases than have been reported,” Neil Ferguson, one of the authors of the report, told the BBC.
“I am substantially more concerned than I was a week ago,” he said, while adding that it was “too early to be alarmist.”
“People should be considering the possibility of substantial human-to-human transmission more seriously than they have so far,” he said, adding that it was “unlikely” that animal exposure was the sole source of infection.
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Of course they lied and the WHO covered for them. What is this health and “scientists” lying for political reasons. NAH AH DON’T SAY!!
Hmm, why would they lie from the outset? Answer: they knew it came from the research lab.
Even so, my phone tells me that this morning, April 9, there are only 1.4 million cases WORLDWIDE. This is nothing. Out of the billions of people that inhabit the earth. What is the panic and expense about? Why are countries committing economic suicide?
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The US funds 20% of the WHO’s budget every year. China funds 2% of the WHO’s budget every year. How much is China paying/gifting/bribing the individuals running the WHO?
my thinking too...
Even so, my phone tells me that this morning, April 9, there are only 1.4 million cases WORLDWIDE. This is nothing. Out of the billions of people that inhabit the earth. What is the panic and expense about? Why are countries committing economic suicide?
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Because wuhan virus isn’t a flu, it is much more contagious & deadly/sarc
Even so, my phone tells me that this morning, April 9, there are only 1.4 million cases WORLDWIDE. This is nothing. Out of the billions of people that inhabit the earth. What is the panic and expense about? Why are countries committing economic suicide?
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It’s a choreographed production by gobal DS bioweapon ghouls who have multiple population, financial, and political objectives. They are all trying to push their pandemic production out as far as they can for multiple effect. They didn’t figure a lowly drug like Hydroxychloroquine would come along to upend their false flag.
China was reporting 45 cases in January, while the London “experts” said the likely number was 1,735. That’s a 38X difference.
China now says they have 83,000 cases. If the London number is more accurate, China has/had over 3 million cases — and God knows how many deaths.
If one applies the infection and death rates seen in the western world, even giving China positive rates due to a younger population, they could easily have had more than 200,000 deaths...JUST in Wuhan.
That number matches their actions, and public response.
That’s fantastic evidence that social distancing, etc are WORKING. Good find!
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