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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by blackrock on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:54AM (#22626947)
How did they know to order more supplies in December?

China reported the new novel strain of the coronavirus to the WHO on December 31. [1] If correct, then this means they were monitoring the news, and reacted immediately, and on the very same day of the fresh report.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6905e1.htm

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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by Alex3917 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:36AM (#22628434)
It's been widely known outside of China that this a novel SARS-like disease was spreading since December 20th, they just didn't confirm that it was novel until the 31st.
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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by hokkos on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:30PM (#22632899)
I can't find any article on google dated before december 30 about "pneumonia china".
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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by nojvek on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:38AM (#22627346)
We just didn’t know how serious this would get. We had H1N1, swine flu, ebola, SARS, MERS, none got out of hand this crazy.

Our own president and task force kept on downplaying it for so long and giving us the wrong information. Even CDC was downplaying for a long time.

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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by BurningFrog on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:06PM (#22630565)
Perhaps this shows that industry experts, with skin in the game, are better at determining the relevant trends than the people and institutions you mention.
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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by colinmhayes on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:50AM (#22628601)
China spent more than a week attempting to cover coronavirus up. By the time the Chinese government made a statement the problem was pretty well known among the Wuhan medical community.
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