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Coronavirus death toll leaps in China's Hubei province; party bosses sacked

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By Winni Zhou and Dominique Patton

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The real person who should be sacked for the criminal handling of this disaster is the self appointed King Xi. It has been a tragic debacle from the start.

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Pretty rough a beauracrat being sacked for failing to stop a virus epidemic...even scientists are going to need as much as 18 months to develop the vaccine.

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All of China needs to be put on an international travel ban. Only way to stop this thing. 14,000 infected in one day!! This is getting scary now.

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And yet, China still does not accept a CDC invitation to come and help. Climate change, nuclear war, Donald Trump, et al. will not destroy the human race, it is after all, big surprise, the commies.

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242 people in one day (what is being admitted to) is tremendous.

I pray for the people of China and for their sake I hope this will get better.

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Does anyone believe what China reports or says?

Their information is often misleading at best we all know that.

I certainly don't, and nor do Chinese people. However, today's numbers are probably more accurate than yesterday's.

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Yes, sacking the party bosses will solve everything.  Because the outbreak is clearly their fault.

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Asian stock markets wobbled and the safe-havens of the Japanese yen

I'm convinced that the Japanese archipelago could completely sink and currency traders will still be calling the JYen a "safe haven".

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Does anyone believe what China reports or says?

Their information is often misleading at best we all know that.

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What they do not mention is what confirmed cases means. Confirmed = two positive reverse transcriptase real time polymerase chain reaction tests. That obviously is just the lower bound for how many cases, since most patients cannot possibly get that test due to the limited testing capability in the small number of labs with the machines needed.

Hopefully those individuals who are within the 14 day incubation period are not shedding large amounts of virus and highly infectious prior to exhibiting identifiable symptoms like fever. That may permit minimizing the toll among those at greatest risk (immuno-compromised, very old, very young, etc.) by isolation of symptomatic patients until the infection resolves.

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Taj, read the article again the number of cases has jumped on Thursday after new reporting. So there is no decrease in number of cases. Also, the death toll is ever increasing. This looks to get a lot worse before there is any improvement!

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Lowest number of new coronavirus cases in two weeks!

Highest death count yet!

Two headlines I've seen for the same story. New cases peaked and are now in decline. It takes a week or so for the outcome (recovery or death, so it makes sense that that peaks later. The overall is that maybe, just maybe, we are over the hump. Not time to let the guard down, but things are looking positive. (the scary headline gets more clicks, though).

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If this continues for the next couple of months, the discussions about holding the Olympics or not here will start showing up!

This of course will continue for the next coming months. SARS lasted around 8 months and it was far less contagious than this strain is. This strain is not going anywhere anytime soon.

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This coming on the heels of the firing of officials in the province.

Why am I not surprised that the "numbers" have been artificially been kept low by the propaganda ministry in China?

If this continues for the next couple of months, the discussions about holding the Olympics or not here will start showing up!

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An excellent article by Winni Zhou and Dominique Patton -- very wide-ranging and comprehensive.

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