Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne

Re:Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne by unityByFreedom on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:37AM (#30942089)

Absolutely I think it's possible for rumors to have been running around given that Dr. Li Wenliang messaged his group about it as being confirmed to be a coronavirus on Dec. 30 [1]

We seem to have miscommunicated. When you wrote "We heard about 'sars outbreak in china' around xmas of 2019" I thought you meant you had heard about a confirmed outbreak reported by some reliable news source, not rumors.

What I meant to underscore was that this knowledge did not become public prior to Taiwan notifying the WHO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang#Role_in_COVID-19_p...

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Re:Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne by philliphaydon on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:44AM (#30942123)

In that case my wording is poor and I apologise for that, sorry.

By 'we' I meant my family and I. My wife is Taiwanese and her family said to be careful because people are saying there was a possible sars outbreak.

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Re:Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne by unityByFreedom on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:51AM (#30942180)

I'm glad we sorted it out. And thanks for the lesson. I'll be more careful reading this kind of comment in the future. I didn't realize there were such rumors floating about and just assumed you were talking about actual news reports.

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Re:Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne by poglet on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:41AM (#30942469)

My partner (from Wuhan) had received wechat messages (a shared wechat 'moment') reporting of an outbreak, I believe this was on the 24th of December 2019, however it could have been a few days later. It indicated that there was some type of outbreak and hospitals were becoming full.

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