Trump’s China Problem
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Saturday, February 1, 2020
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The coronavirus has now infected more than SARS ever did
One month after the new coronavirus was discovered, the virus has infected more people than the related SARS coronavirus did when it broke out in 2002/2003.
BY KEVIN GREENERpublished:
The newly erupted coronavirus has now infected more people than the related SARS coronavirus did during the SARS outbreak in 2002/2003. The latest official figures released by the Chinese authorities on Friday show that 9809 people have been infected with the new coronavirus. In comparison, a total of 8422 people were infected with SARS between November 2002 and July 2003, after which the WHO declared that the risk of infection at SARS was over. In addition, the Chinese authorities suspect that an additional 15,238 people are infected with the new coronavirus.
213 people have so far died of the new coronavirus, while the SARS outbreak killed a total of 916 people.
Chinese authorities have previously said that the coronavirus, which is still only officially known under the name 2019-ncov, had a mortality rate of about 2% – that is, about 2% of the infected door.
A study of 99 patients from Wuhan, published in the medical journal The Lancet on Thursday, showed an 11% mortality rate, which is the same mortality rate that the SARS virus had.
The SARS virus never reached Denmark, but spread to 29 other countries.
Coronavirus Report: 75,815 infected Wuhaners
Findings by scientists at Hong Kong University based on the assumption that each infected patient could have infected 2.68 others
Meanwhile, numbers of new infections and deaths set daily records.
The Trump administration has also ordered US citizens, permanent residents and immediate family members arriving in the country from Hubei be quarantined for 14 days starting Sunday at 5pm Eastern Time.
One of the biggest problems facing authorities trying to tackle the outbreak in China is a shortage of vital supplies.
In a bid to ease the situation, the State Council, China’s cabinet, said on Saturday it would waive its trade war tariffs on US imports of such products as medical protective gear and sanitizers.
It said also it would freeze taxes on all vehicles donated to help fight the outbreak, including ambulances and those used to spray disinfectant.
As well, both exemptions would apply retrospectively from January 1 until the end of March, so companies that had bought such items since the start of the year could apply for a tax refund.
Nowcasting and forecasting the potential domestic and international spread of the 2019-nCoV outbreak originating in Wuhan, China: a modelling study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30260-9/fulltext

(A) Cumulative number of confirmed cases of 2019 novel coronavirus as of Jan 28, 2020, in Wuhan, in mainland China (including Wuhan), and outside mainland China. (B) Major routes of outbound air and train travel originating from Wuhan during chunyun, 2019. Darker and thicker edges represent greater numbers of passengers. International outbound air travel (yellow) constituted 13·5% of all outbound air travel, and the top 40 domestic (red) outbound air routes constituted 81·3%. Islands in the South China Sea are not shown.
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“Scientists in China have figured out the genetic code of the Wuhan coronavirus. When researchers compared it with other coronaviruses, they found it to be most similar to two bat coronavirus samples from China.””But further analysis showed that the genetic building blocks of the Wuhan coronavirus more closely resembled that of snakes. According to the researchers, the only way to be sure of where the virus came from is to take DNA samples from animals sold at the Huanan market and from wild snakes and bats in the area.” (https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-chinese-wet-market-photos-2020-1)”As news of the Wuhan virus spread online, one video became emblematic of its claimed origin: It showed a young Chinese woman, supposedly in Wuhan, biting into a virtually whole bat as she held the creature up with chopsticks. Media outlets from the Daily Mail to RT promoted the video, as did a number of prominent extremist bloggers such as Paul Joseph Watson. Thousands of Twitter users blamed supposedly “dirty” Chinese eating habits—in particular the consumption of wildlife—for the outbreak, said to have begun at a so-called wet market that sold animals in Wuhan, China.”
“There was just one problem. The video wasn’t set in Wuhan at all, where bat isn’t a delicacy. It wasn’t even from China. Instead it showed Wang Mengyun, the host of an online travel show, eating a dish in Palau, a Pacific island nation. Sampling the bat was simply an addition to the well-trodden cannon of adventurism and enthusiasm for unusual foods that numerous American chefs and travel hosts have shown in the past.” (https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/27/dont-blame-bat-soup-for-the-wuhan-virus/)
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