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A friend of ours, A J Roberts, did her Masters and PHD studies on viruses. This is her facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/AJRobertsrtb/ She has been keeping us up to date. She is with REASONS TO BELIEVE.
Sounds like China is dinking around trying to prevent the declaring of many more cases.
This is idiotic in that you can’t hide the fact you’re having to scoop up bodies on the street.
So the growth of declared cases goes to zero. The recovered and fatalities have the active declared cases pegged at zero, and people are still dropping dead like crazy.
Talk about a banana republic.
Just deal with it China. It’s an epidemic.
Facts are facts, and farther you run from them, the more of a banana republic you’ll wind up looking like.
This changing of criteria is quite normal under these circumstances.
As I have said here before, nobody knows, and nobody CAN know, how many cases there are.
And how many there REALLY are holds the key to understanding, and eventually controlling, the problem.
If a nasopharyngeal PCR is the gold standard, under conditions existing in Hubei province, cases will be severely undercounted. If you use clinical criteria only, you will be counting flu cases, or colds.
Forget the numbers. Focus on Wuhan, and why it is so different from every other province in China, every other place on earth in fact - that’s the interesting thing about this situation.
Breaking News: CHINA LIES...again
Duh
The new criteria exclude patients from Hubei Province, the hardest-hit area of the outbreak, who are diagnosed using clinical methods, including CT scans and an assessment of symptoms. Instead, patients there would be counted as having contracted the virus only when confirmed by a specialized nucleic acid test. Using the new criteria, officials in the province on Thursday recorded 349 new cases in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total national figures to 74,576. New deaths rose by 114 on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 2,118.
In its sixth iteration of a diagnosis regime, the government said it would differentiate between “suspected” and “confirmed” cases from now on. Cases would only be considered confirmed after genetic testing.
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So they are going back to the way the United States and other countries do it. The problem is this makes it tough for statistics keepers.
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sounds like the ccp is flailing away at altering the method of counting cases such as to produce, at some point, zero new cases so as to get back to normal regardless of how many incinerators they have to use to hide the truth
“Instead, patients there would be counted as having contracted the virus only when confirmed by a specialized nucleic acid test.”
Some of these tests are excellent with accuracies in the high 90%.
Good doctor/rn/lab tech diagnosis plays a big role. The problem is often the skill levels re accuracy in diagnosis will often vary all over the spectrum from fair to excellent.