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By HYUNG-JIN KIM SEOUL©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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JTC
Since China's CCP invented the Global Virus, they've probably shared some sort of cure with NK.
Harry_Gatto
This news may indeed be true but does anyone actually care?
Garthgoyle
Their current Covid zero "strategy" would prove the opposite (about a cure).
If not even China's zero Covid worked with their extreme measures, there's no way NK could eliminate the virus.
PTownsend
In simple English 'organizational power and unity' can best be understood as ''totalitarianism'.
virusrex
You mean not reporting any covid death if the patient had any other disease to blame the death on?
GBR48
quote: Since they began with manipulated data, they’re now putting an end to the outbreak with manipulated data.
The UK's figures included anyone who tested positive within the month before they died, even if their deaths had nothing to do with Covid. Have asymptomatic Covid and get hit by a truck? You were a Covid death. So inaccurate stats are not the monopoly of North Korea.
quote: The North’s elevated pandemic response has provided Kim with a tool to boost his authoritarian rule.
That happened everywhere else too.
quote: Other experts say the North’s fatalities would be several thousand at the maximum.
In 2020 the mortality rate in Japan actually went down.
virusrex
The data for the daily or weekly vigilance? yes, because it is much faster to collect and publish, but for the long term analysis this is not true, experts have the time to correctly discriminate the deaths where covid has an important contribution.
North Korean numbers are not ”inaccurate” they are completely fictitious and impossible according to how the pandemic behaves in reality.
painkiller
North Korea on Saturday reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May.
We just don't know.
GBR48Today 09:15 am JST
Exactly. Japan also does not calculate the statistics in line with other countries, such as the US.
albaleo
The UK government publishes separate sets of death figures: those who died within 28 days of a positive test and those where covid is written on the death certificate. You can see both sets at the link below.
The reason the 28-day data is generally published is that it is available quickly. Death certificate registration can take weeks following death and so it takes a while to get the data.
If the purpose is to show general trends, then the 28-day method is probably fine. While it may include deaths that have nothing to do with covid, we'd expect those numbers to be consistent from week to week, and so the covid-related death trends will show.
Note that your asymptomatic example probably wouldn't be included in the data as most asymptomatic people are unlikely to have been tested.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths
falseflagsteve
Wouldn’t be surprised at a low death rate there despite the poverty. The worst combo with Covud is obesity and there’s little of that there outside of the elite. Same in Africa with low vaccinations and low obesity rates.
blvtzpk
Hmmm.
Apparently, malnutrition is a solution to COVID-19!
Amazing.
falseflagsteve
blvtzpk
Is that your assessment? Well, it’s incorrect, what is correct is that obese non senior people are the most likely to die from Covid by a large majority. That’s why USA has the highest deaths, too many fatties.
painkiller
Talking about Japan I see.
falseflagsteveToday 05:00 am JST
Some good points worth exploring.
virusrex
Do you have any source where Japan systematically does this? there are plenty that prove China is hiding all covid deaths as long as they can identify other diseases to blame the death on.
Poverty is a factor of risk that would explain higher death rates, never impossibly low ones, malnutrition, lack of access to effective treatments, for example would make people much more likely to die than what they are reporting.
falseflagsteve
Virusrex
Please provide evidence that poorer countries with malnutrition problems fare worse than countries with high obesity rates. The science, the data and the facts show it’s not true