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We all hope and pray this is true, and not a false dawn. The person giving the press conference declined to take questions.

Hong Kong doctors were saying the city had used up its available isolation rooms and respirators as of Monday of last week. The government of Hong Kong announced they would start using a much more aggressive treatment regimen at the same time.

Deaths went up, but so did the number of patients discharged. Hong Kong may have turned the corner at essentially the same time as it ran out of resources.

Alternatively, it is possible that Hong Kong is simply letting the worst cases die in order to free up resources for those they think they can save. Likewise, they may be sending others home earlier than than they would have before, in order to free up space in isolation wards.

Time will tell.