China Virus Death Toll Rises To At Least 212 As WHO Declares Global Emergency

Thomson Reuters ^ | 01/30/20 | Rosalba O'Brien

[Truthoverpower]

Government propaganda dirt! Government propaganda alert!

[dsc]

“I’ve seen just how politicized that bunch is when it comes to our obesity/diabetes epidemic”

It’s not just ours; it’s worldwide. That’s the main thing that makes me suspect that the obesity epidemic is biological warfare, either released or accidentally escaped.

[Zhang Fei]

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[PIF]

212 deaths isn’t an emergency. This is virulent but overblown.

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Yes the Chinese Communist Party is know for its openness in releasing accurate numbers about everything - a true transparent country ...

[Jim Noble]

I think the story here (apart from the interesting and somewhat concerning epidemiology) is the fate of China.

[Jim Noble]

Has anyone offered the opinion that China did this deliberately with the eye toward infecting the United States?

Yes many people have posted that already.

In my opinion this is a naturally-evolved virus, virology tech isn't as good as most posters here imagine.

[BobL]

“It’s not just ours; it’s worldwide. That’s the main thing that makes me suspect that the obesity epidemic is biological warfare, either released or accidentally escaped.”

Definitely worldwide. Bummer for other countries, though, they don’t have enough insight into just how corrupt our medical field is to understand that anything coming out of our government should be taken with a grain of salt (with salt being another scandal). So they blindly follow us, trusting that our recommendations are based on research - LOL.

As to obesity being chemical warfare, I don’t think that was the case at the beginning. At this point, it is the case - it’s basically no different than smoking at least in recent decades, where everyone knows the truth, but they’re making so much money off it, and everyone they know is doing the same - then no one wants to point out the elephant in the living room. For that matter, same with the Housing Bubble that started to blow up 15 years ago.

[Svartalfiar]

Let's be precise: the 2% Case Fatality Rate (CFR) you quote is based on confirmed deaths divided by confirmed cases in the PRC.

Except that the fatality rate is NOT deaths / cases, it's deaths / resolved cases. For that 2% number, how many of those cases are healed, and how many are yet to die? Maybe none, maybe half, probably in the middle. What are people's chances of re-infection? I fully expect that number to go up, and that's ignoring the fact that PRC numbers can't be trusted much in the first place.

[DoodleBob]

Case fatality rate, also called case fatality ratio, in epidemiology, the proportion of people who die from a specified disease among all individuals diagnosed with the disease over a certain period of time.

[Svartalfiar]

Case fatality rate, also called case fatality ratio, in epidemiology, the proportion of people who die from a specified disease among all individuals diagnosed with the disease over a certain period of time.


Wikipedia, actually, has a better definition for you. Also, 'rate' and 'ratio' do not mean the same thing.

A case fatality rate is the proportion of deaths within a designated population due to a given medical condition, of such cases over the course of the disease.