"China's political system has weak immunity to viruses. A bungled swine flu cover-up doubled pork prices last year. Now a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia is panicking citizens... local censorship slows medical response and facilitates transmission."https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-wuhan-breakingviews/breakingviews-chinas-viral-immune-system-open-to-economic-pox-idUSKBN1ZK09X …
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Wilson Leung 梁允信 🇭🇰 Retweeted Eric Hundman | 何諳銳
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Eric Hundman | 何諳銳 @ehundmanMy initial optimism about officials’ handling of this case is largely gone. I made allowances in the early days as tests and protocols were being figured out, but it’s becoming clear politics are both causing delayed reporting and leading people to downplay risks. Dangerous. https://twitter.com/bylijing/status/1219296493208662017 …Show this thread1 reply 4 retweets 17 likesShow this thread -
Also: "A leading Chinese doctor investigating the killer coronavirus has admitted he has caught the SARS-like infection... Dr [Wang] is one of the national experts that previously said the pneumonia-causing virus...was under control.“ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7912457/Chinese-doctor-investigating-virus-outbreak-says-infected.html …
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Also: "Questions have emerged on Chinese social media about whether the Chinese government has been forthcoming. Many articles and posts, including some using the hashtag
#WuhanSARS, were censored."https://nyti.ms/2NNBAtf1 reply 5 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
Wilson Leung 梁允信 🇭🇰 Retweeted Lily Kuo
Also this threadhttps://twitter.com/lilkuo/status/1219643548867485697?s=19 …
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Lily KuoVerified account @lilkuoChinese authorities have said that six people have died so far from the coronavirus, but the death toll could be higher. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/21/coronavirus-chinese-hospitals-not-testing-patients-say-relatives?CMP=share_btn_tw …Show this thread1 reply 2 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
Also "..the govt had largely treated the outbreak as a problem isolated to Wuhan. It was only after HK news media reported that cases of the coronavirus had been detected elsewhere that the govt began acknowledging..the disease had spread to other cities."https://nyti.ms/2NNBAtf
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Also: "...authorities in Wuhan are playing down the outbreak. Around half of the residents TIME spoke to were unaware of the crisis and consequently not taking precautions, such as avoiding crowds or wearing face masks."https://time.com/5768230/wuhan-pneumonia-flu-crisis-china-government/ …
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Also: "The country's National Health Commission confirmed this week the virus can be transmitted between people, after Wuhan health authorities maintained for two weeks that there was 'no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission."' https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/01/22/asia/wuhan-ground-zero-intl-hnk/index.html?__twitter_impression=true …
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Wilson Leung 梁允信 🇭🇰 Retweeted Echo Huang
Very good analysis by
@echohuangyhttps://twitter.com/echohuangy/status/1219812696947736576?s=19 …Wilson Leung 梁允信 🇭🇰 added,
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Thank you! Really scared by SARS...
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