New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market

Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by neffy on Saturday January 25, 2020 @12:55PM (#22147504)

I think it's a perfectly valid question, although the wildlife market is equally valid on the evidence we have. We know that the Chinese Government is hugely overreacting to public information at this point in time - terrible as the published numbers are they are not that out of whack with a normal bad flu epidemic, which also causes significantly higher death rates.

So it's either the actual death rates are higher (well, almost certainly), and/or they know or suspect something more serious.

Bearing in mind too, that even China doesn't trust China on reporting - witness the central committee order a few days ago to the regions to be accurate with reports or else.

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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by reaperducer on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:28PM (#22147719)

We know that the Chinese Government is hugely overreacting

Do we know that? All of the criticism I've seen has been of the government under-reacting. In fact, in a speech yesterday Xi told the local authorities that they weren't doing enough.

Non-Chinese estimates (as of 24 January) are that there's 6,000 people infected vs. 1,300 from the Chinese government.

The 6,000 figure comes from the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems at Northeastern University in Boston: https://www.mobs-lab.org/2019ncov.html

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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by adamiscool8 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:33PM (#22147763)

It seems like the local government under-reacted, and now the central government is (hopefully) over-reacting.

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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by appleflaxen on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:48PM (#22147849)

It seems like they are reacting too late, and under-reporting.

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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by throw_54313 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @02:24PM (#22148075)

It seems like they are reacting just in time.

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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by powerfoolx on Saturday January 25, 2020 @02:41PM (#22148174)

“that even China doesn't trust China on reporting”

Will the federal gov just trust the state gov, especially when the it's a republican president versus a democrat governor? Of course not. That kind of overly abstract wording is what lead to misunderstanding of actual problems.

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