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A few facts to set the record straight:

Posted by Krav Maga (A) on March 22, 2020 at 01:52:12

In Reply to: RE: Excellent post... posted by RGA on March 21, 2020 at 19:47:44:

"Yes but had there been a pandemic response team on the ground in China in December (which there used to be under competent US leadership) then we would not have to wait for China to save face because we would have known immediately."

A few facts to set the record straight:

From the Feb. 7, 2020 NYT article "C.D.C. and W.H.O. Offers to Help China Have Been Ignored for Weeks
Privately, Chinese doctors say they need outside expertise. But Beijing, without saying why, has shown no interest so far." (Link below):

"For more than a month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been offering to send a team of experts to China to observe its coronavirus outbreak and help if it can.

Normally, teams from the agency's Epidemic Intelligence Service can be in the air within 24 hours.

But no invitation has come - and no one can publicly explain why.

The World Health Organization, which made a similar offer about two weeks ago, appears to be facing the same cold shoulder, though a spokeswoman said it is just "sorting out arrangements."

Current and former public health officials and diplomats, speaking anonymously for fear of upsetting diplomatic relations, said they believe the reluctance comes from China's top leaders, who do not want the world to think they need outside help.
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The two fields in which China appears to need outside help, experts said, are molecular virology and epidemiology.

The first involves sequencing the virus's genome and manipulating it to refine diagnostic tests, treatments and vaccine candidates.

The second involves figuring out basic questions like who gets infected and who does not, how long the incubation period is, why some victims die, how many other people each victim infects and how commonly hospital outbreaks are occurring.

"This isn't rocket science, it's basic stuff - but it's been five weeks and we still don't know the answers," one expert said.

It would be very useful, for example, to have a blood test for antibodies. That would make it possible to see how many infected people had recovered, which would make it clearer as to how lethal the virus is - and how widespread.

A major epidemiological failure by China is that the Wuhan authorities appear to have closed and disinfected the seafood market that was the outbreak's early focus without swabbing individual animals and their cages and without drawing blood from everyone working there. That would have provided a wealth of information about which animal might have been the source of the coronavirus and which people had become infected but survived.

Asked what had happened to the animals - whether they had been burned or buried, for instance, one expert said: "No one can tell me that. I don't think they know." "

(To be continued in next post)
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