Pompeo speaks of 'Wuhan virus' despite China's protests

Yahoo News ^ | March 7, 2020 | Shaun TANDON

[HK_Kai_Chung]

The novel coronavirus is getting a new name from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo -- the "Wuhan virus" -- despite objections from China where the illness was first detected.

For the second day in a row, Pompeo on Friday publicly referred to COVID-19 as the "Wuhan virus" or "Wuhan coronavirus," a reference to the central Chinese metropolis that is hardest hit.

Asked in a CNBC interview about the success of Beijing's response to the outbreak, Pompeo said, "I'm happy you complimented the Chinese Communist Party today, but remember this is the Wuhan coronavirus that's caused this."

[Paladin2]

Branding is everything these daze.

[wastedyears]

We do that with asteroids and comets.

[HighSierra5]

Would they like it better if we called it the Commie flu?

[LeoWindhorse]

This is God’s retribution for the ethnic Chinese proclivity of eating all sorts of wild and endangered animals . Or killing and using body parts or organs thereof of all sorts of medicinal ‘needs’. Usually concerned with virility or enhanced sexual performance.
This has been going on for centuries, but since the end of WW2, and especially since Nixon’s assistance in openning to China to the wider world . China Chinese are shameless in raping the world of whatever animal originating products they can scam . From Pangolin to tiger parts, from bear paws to birds nest ; it’s a long long list . Now, karmically, nature is striking back ! Som num nah....

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Hey China, you started it you own it. Not everyone works for the NBA so you can’t expect us to kiss your butts in pursuit of a profit.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Hey China, you started it you own it. Not everyone works for the NBA so you can’t expect us to kiss your butts in pursuit of a profit.

[RonnG]

We call it the Chinese Flu in my house.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Sorry about the double post. It never ceases to impress me on how a teenager running a posting website can put in a line of code forbidding you from posting more than once every X seconds (which makes it impossible to double post) but FR, with all the money spent on it hasn’t been able to figure out how to do it.

[HK_Kai_Chung]

And don't forget this:

Xi Jinping Portraits Replace Catholic Symbols in Churches

https://bitterwinter.org/xi-jinping-portraits-replace-catholic-symbols/

[dp0622]

lol

I love this regime :)

Rudy. Pompeo.

Maybe the dems are right. Maybe Trump is running it like one of the five families :)

I’m available :)

[LeoWindhorse]

Xi = the reincarnation of Mao Tse Dung
Xi= Michael Bloomberg’s secret ally

[PghBaldy]

For a Secretary of State to do this, it means something. What is he hinting at? Why do this? Is he hinting he knows it was man-made?

[JonPreston]

What is he hinting at? Why do this? Is he hinting he knows it was man-made?

Tom Cotton mentioned the bio connection nearly a month ago and was subsequently mocked by our media flacks, which suggests he's on to something.

[Paladin2]

Among other more important things, Trump is a Showman.

He’s a closer.

[DoughtyOne]

As of 03/06/2020 21:13 PST (21:13 was last update, taken at 00:00)

These numbers include Mainland China and All Others globally

Because things are heating up, I wanted to present the data a little
different this time. Let's look at the normal things, but provide
the last five days of each metric. I want you to be able to see how
things are changing.

        Declared Cases
        .         Declared Deceased
        .         .       Declared Recovered
        .         .       .        Declared Resolved
Date    .         .       .        .        Cases Remining Active
-----------------------------------------------------------------
03/02    90,937   3,117   48,054   51,171   39,766
03/03    93,160   3,198   50,690   53,888   39,272
03/04    95,425   3,286   53,399   56,685   38,740
03/05    98,387   3,383   55,441   58,824   39,563 
03/06   102,188   3,491   57,389   60,880   41,308

It's not that easy to spot the change in daily growth. Here are the change
numbers for the last five days. 1,864, 2,223, 2,265, 2,962, 3,801...

That's a rather prounounced growth rate. Now these are just the declared
cases, but still...

The last column there shows the numbers of active cases. You will note how
they were dropping, then started increasing again. Here are the last five days
drop & growth numbers. -1,164, -494, -532, +823, +1,745...

It may seem that the rapid growth of declared cases would result in a larger
increase in active cases, but resolved cases each day offsets the growth.
This is the natural way the active cases lag behind the declarations.

Right now that 3,801 new declared cases looms large. The bright side of that
is that in two-three weeks, guess what happens. At some point we'll have
3,000-3,500 resolved cases per day going forward. That in turn will be
offsetting any new cases cropping up then. Then at some point the number
of active cases will stagnate, and start falling again. That will be the
beginning of the end.

This will be an interesting process, because we may have ten to twenty hot
spot nations in the days ahead. We've already have 3-5 more headed in
that direction.

Back around the 25th of February I had predicted that this flu might be
on it's last legs by the 15th. If it had been possible to keep this
from spreading outside China in large numbers, that would have held true.
Sadly, that wasn't possible.

We live in a highly mobile world. Infections can find hosts and carriers
rather easily.

The mortality rate did drop a small bit yesterday from 5.75% to 5.73%. It is
stalling due to the massive numbers of new cases outside China.

I expect it to begin to rise in the next 24 to 48 hours. I was surprised
it didn't today.

Later today, the majority of active cases of COVID-19 will exist outside
Mainland China for the first time. It should be documented before noon PST.

We are still a whisker away from 60% of all declared cases, being resolved.
We won't reach that number at this time. The increase in outside Mainland
China cases will prevent it.

These numbers address the cases outside of Mainland China.

I will provide the same format for the numbers outside Mainland China.

        Declared Cases
        .        Declared Deceased
        .        .     Declared Recovered
        .        .     .       Declared Resolved
Date    .        .     .       .       Cases Remining Active
-----------------------------------------------------------------
03/02   10,786   173     792     965    9,821
03/03   12,890   217     837   1,054   11,836
03/04   15,015   279   1,222   1,501   13,514
03/05   17,832   341   1,685   2,026   15,806 
03/06   21,537   421   1,986   2,407   19,130

Those numbers could easily continue to double or more every five days. As new
nations catch fire, the climb will go pretty much exponential. If you like
numbers, I urge you to look at the database I've wroked up.

You can study the progression of any category you like.

Lets talk about the United States for a minute. I am troubled by the daily
growth I'm seeing. Our cases are now growing at the rate of 50% per day.
Those of you who know how compound interest works, will realize it will only
take a matter of days before we have thousnd of cases here, if thie rate keeps
up. I'm resigned to the idea it will.

Here are the last seven days:

02/29 - 071
03/01 - 086
03/02 - 105
03/03 - 127
03/04 - 159
03/05 - 233
03/06 - 338

Notice how tht daily change has grown close to 50%.

Here is what the slice of the Active Case Pie, looks like outside Mainland
China. Here is the percentage of Active Cases outside China.

03/02 - 24.70%
03/03 - 30.14%
03/04 - 34.88%
03/05 - 39.95%
03/06 - 46.31%

That makes it pretty clear why I said over 50% of the Active Cases outside
Mainland China will excede 50% for the first time.

The current mortality rate of deceased / deceased + recovered is 17.49%. That figure
is still grosely high, and should not be used for purposes of extrapolation of what
lies ahead.

There are now 15,806 active cases outside of Mainland China. The number of
active cases grew 2,792 cases today, and that was a rate of 16.96%. (EOD 03/06)

102 nations are now declaring cases within their borders. 1+

Three nations of the 102 nations or entities outside of Mainland China still account
for right at 75% of all active cases outside China at this time.

6,767 31.42% South Korea
4,747 21.53% Iran
4,636 22.04% Italy

74.99% of all cases ourside of China...

These are clearly three break-out naitons.

All data below sourced from Johns Hopkins University: LINK

I have been downloading three to five reports per day since 01/27. I have then
worked up numbers that should give a very good representation of numbers that have
been provided to the public via that site.

In my spreadsheet linked below, you'll find global numbers including China. You will
find a separate section addressing just the Outside China figures. There are also
a lot of special stats broken out for you to browse. The history of 102 nations and
their Coronavirus record is there for you to view.

You're welcome to it.

COVID-19 Spreadsheet using JHU data

File XLSX

I'd like to apologize to those who may have been accessing my XLS version.

Due to the numbers of nations I am now tracking, the XLS version cannot support
the width of the file I have created. I can no longer provide it without major work.

If anyone wants that version, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

[Paladin2]

“...but FR, with all the money spent on it hasn’t been able to figure out how to do it.”

It’s not really a big issue, but fun to see if one can double post with the same time stamp...

[Paladin2]

“...but FR, with all the money spent on it hasn’t been able to figure out how to do it.”

It’s not really a big issue, but fun to see if one can double post with the same time stamp...

[fieldmarshaldj]

Blame Truman. MacArthur could’ve routed Mao and installed Chiang instead. No Red China, no Communist crap in SE Asia (hence, no Vietnam and all that fun). A different world today.

[Paladin2]

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