They found six new cases in Wuhan so they’re planning to test eleven million people over the next ten days. Neither number is a typo.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-wuhan-idUSKBN22N24F …
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Chinese authorities found 12 cases in Qingdao, so they will be testing *nine million* people in about a week. (No typos). They had done the same in Wuhan in May, see thread above. Yes, it's costly but having an uncontrolled epidemic is more costly.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54504785 …
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People will now accuse me of amplifying China's propaganda. See my thread & article from February— now confirmed with more reporting—that argued that their authoritarianism *blindsided* them, fueling the spread of the the pandemic. Realism, not admiration.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1296450811996909568 …
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I don't think A: anyone believes they are going to test 1.1 million people per day or B: the test kits they are going to use are any good. If they are using the kits they export, there will be a huge error rate. Testing 11 million swabs will take more than 10 days
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How much did Xi pay for you to believe that nonsense?
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that’s amazing: ‘ok we missed some cases, let’s test everyone again.’ but, without doing the stats myself i suspect: - false-pos will surely overwhelm real-pos - with nonzero false-neg rate, surely they’ll never find *every* case … in case anyone thought China has a panacea
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The tests produce false negatives and not false positives by virtue of what is tested and how
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Zeynep, how much do you trust their data/numbers (on a scale of 1-10), and why? Thanks
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8. My mom in Shanghai. She gives me update on her situation. Lines up with what little info we get in the west. China do stuff to do stuff not to show us they do stuff like alot of us may think.
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