China may have prevented 95% of virus cases if whistleblower not silenced

Re:China may have prevented 95% of virus cases if whistleblo... by isaaafc on Sunday March 15, 2020 @12:26AM (#22581265)

While the world now praises the Chinese government's response (they shouldn't) to the Wuhan Corona Virus outbreak, please remember why it spread at first. Also, I doubt if the situation is actually controlled in China. Have we ever known how China counted the patients? In more than one case, the new infections in a city exceeds that of its province.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1237852245359644675?s=20

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Re:China may have prevented 95% of virus cases if whistleblo... by Engineering-MD on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:52AM (#22582259)

I couldn’t find any evidence in the link about new cases in a city exceeding that for a province. Do you have any source for that? Or any other evidence that numbers may be misleading in China? Given their past record it does seem likely, but I suspect their social distancing measures have been at least partly successful.

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Re:China may have prevented 95% of virus cases if whistleblo... by isaaafc on Monday March 16, 2020 @02:03AM (#22590415)

The related news I could find were all in Chinese I'm afraid. You'll need to translate it.

[1] Story behind the sudden spike of confirmed cases in Hubei Province.

https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-51485553

[2] Official amendment of the numbers in Hubei Province. The day before, the newly confirmed cases reported in the Hubei Province was 349, while that of Wuhan city was 615 (Wuhan is a city in Hubei).

http://m.news.cctv.com/2020/02/21/ARTI5BVxbRm6O6rOBnUVpaMB20...

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