CDC, DHS Initiate Screenings At Major Airports To Prevent Spread Of Chinese Coronavir

[Gunny]

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 4:25 PM PT — Sunday, January 19, 2020

U.S. officials have begun screening major airports amid growing concerns of a coronavirus detected in China. One America’s Jacob Miller has more on the story.

The tell you a lot. Except exactly what a "coronavirus" is.

another link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...irms-new-cases

[Gunny]

BEIJING (Reuters) – An outbreak of a new coronavirus in China has spread to more cities, Chinese authorities said on Monday, as the number of patients tripled and a third person died, stoking concerns about the containment of the virus.
The Daxing health commission in the capital Beijing said it had confirmed two cases of coronavirus, while the southern Guangdong province’s health commission confirmed one case in Shenzhen. They mark the first cases in China beyond the central city of Wuhan where the virus first emerged.
The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said 136 new cases of pneumonia caused by the coronavirus strain had been found in the city over the weekend, adding to 62 already known cases. A third death occurred on Saturday, the authority said in a statement.
This brings the total number of known cases worldwide to more than 200, underscoring the challenge for health authorities seeking to contain the outbreak.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese tourists will be traveling domestically and abroad during the Lunar New Year holiday period that starts later this week.
A report by London Imperial College’s MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis estimated that by Jan. 12 there were 1,723 cases in Wuhan City with onset of related symptoms. Chinese health authorities have not commented directly on the report.
CONTAINMENT EFFORTS
Authorities around the globe, including in the United States and many Asian countries, have stepped up screening of travelers from Wuhan. Outside China, two cases have been reported in Thailand and one in Japan, all involving people from Wuhan or who recently visited the city.
The virus belongs in the same family of coronaviruses as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed nearly 800 people globally during a 2002/03 outbreak that also started in China.
Its symptoms include fever and difficulty in breathing, which are similar to many other respiratory diseases and pose complications for screening efforts.
China’s National Health Commission said on Sunday it will step up prevention efforts, but acknowledged it still doesn’t know the source of the virus.
Shares in pharmaceutical firms and mask makers in China surged Monday because of the outbreak.
The outbreak was one of the top trending topics on Chinese social media platform Weibo, where many users expressed concerns about their safety.
“Who knows how many people who have been to Wuhan may be unaware that they have already been infected?,” one user said.
China’s Global Times, published by the ruling Communist Party’s official People’s Daily newspaper, said in an editorial the government needs to disclose all information and not repeat the mistakes made with SARS. Chinese officials covered up the SARS outbreak for weeks before a growing death toll and rumors forced it to reveal the epidemic.
“Concealment would be a serious blow to the government’s credibility and might trigger greater social panic,” the editorial said.
(Reporting by Winni Zhou and Josh Horwitz in Shanghai, Roxanne Liu and Sophie Yu in Beijing; Writing by Se Young Lee; Editing by Richard Pullin)

https://www.oann.com/china-confirms-...to-new-cities/

[FakeNewsSux]

Interesting;

Virus-hit Wuhan has two laboratories linked to Chinese bio-warfare program

Virology institute there has China's only secure lab for studying deadly virus


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...linked-chines/


...and how about this for a hell of a coincidence:

Federal prosecutors call Harvard department chair an undercover Chinese agent
China paid a non-Chinese Harvard University chemist around $2 million to act as its own secret employee over several years, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Charles Lieber set up a research lab in China for Wuhan University of Technology and covertly worked for WUT most of the year under the government-backed Thousand Talents program, prosecutors told The Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. spent $15 million to fund Lieber’s research group in the U.S. while he was allegedly moonlighting for China, a relationship he was obligated to disclose under U.S. law as a federally funded researcher:

When Defense Department investigators asked Mr. Lieber in 2018 about his foreign research collaborations, he told them he had never been asked to participate in the Thousand Talents Program, the complaint said. Two days later, Mr. Lieber instructed a colleague to send him a link to a webpage listing him as running the Wuhan lab. “I will be careful about what I discuss with Harvard University, and none of this will be shared with government investigators at this time,” he wrote, according to the complaint.

Lieber allegedly instructed Harvard, where he chairs the chemistry department, to falsely tell the National Institutes of Health the same year that he’d had “no formal affiliation” with WUT after 2012, prosecutors claim. Harvard has put the 29-year veteran on administrative leave.
The chemist is a pioneer in nanotechnology, and other indictments unveiled Tuesday show the U.S. government’s allegations against other researchers who were recruited to “fill gaps” in Chinese research:

“Chemistry, nanotechnology, polymer studies, robotics, computer science, biomedical research—this is not an accident or a coincidence,” said Andrew Lelling, the top federal prosecutor in Boston, referring to the science at issue in the cases. “This is a small sample of China’s ongoing campaign to siphon off American technology and know-how for Chinese gain.”

Harvard has two of the three indicted researchers. The other, cancer researcher Zaosong Zheng, came to the U.S. on a Harvard-sponsored visa and was prevented from leaving the country in December when customs agents found biological research vials “hidden in a sock.”

https://www.thecollegefix.com/federa...chinese-agent/

[jimnyc]

Interesting;

Virus-hit Wuhan has two laboratories linked to Chinese bio-warfare program

...and how about this for a hell of a coincidence:

Ding! Ding! Ding Ding! Ding!

You win @FakeNewsSux !! You don't win anything, but you win!!

After making another post I just got to thinking when China started their coverup on this virus, and when we here at this board go from the story they were telling to the lab in Wuhan. And that's you, and earlier than I thought too!

Circumstantial or not, I am convinced it came from the lab. The story at the market just doesn't float, but accidentally from a lab not far away does float, IMO. You have it KNOWN down the road, and in the market the story about the bats simply aren't sold there.

Add in the "bat woman" and her own initial claims, and the proof already out there about covering up data, getting rid of data and other threats from above. Initial patients from doctors across the street in the hospital. People who shared with the world stories and then disappeared.

[FakeNewsSux]

Ding! Ding! Ding Ding! Ding!

You win @FakeNewsSux !! You don't win anything, but you win!!

After making another post I just got to thinking when China started their coverup on this virus, and when we here at this board go from the story they were telling to the lab in Wuhan. And that's you, and earlier than I thought too!

Circumstantial or not, I am convinced it came from the lab. The story at the market just doesn't float, but accidentally from a lab not far away does float, IMO. You have it KNOWN down the road, and in the market the story about the bats simply aren't sold there.

Add in the "bat woman" and her own initial claims, and the proof already out there about covering up data, getting rid of data and other threats from above. Initial patients from doctors across the street in the hospital. People who shared with the world stories and then disappeared.

Yeah, I went back and checked. This post was from almost 3 months ago (1/29). I'm glad to hear that our intelligence services have finally discovered what we here at Debate Policy have known for the last quarter of a year!

[FakeNewsSux]

If you noticed, most of the information in the Washington Times article came from an Israeli source. I found another interesting debate in the Times of Israel:

Top Israeli prof claims simple stats show virus plays itself out after 70 days



A prominent Israeli mathematician, analyst and former general claims simple statistical analysis demonstrates that the spread of COVID-19 peaks after about 40 days and declines to almost zero after 70 days — no matter where it strikes, and no matter what measures governments impose to try to thwart it.
Prof Isaac Ben-Israel, head of the Security Studies program in Tel Aviv University and the chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, told Israel’s Channel 12 (Hebrew) Monday night that research he conducted with a fellow professor, analyzing the growth and decline of new cases in countries around the world, showed repeatedly that “there’s a set pattern” and “the numbers speak for themselves.”
While he said he supports social distancing, the widespread shuttering of economies worldwide constitutes a demonstrable error in light of those statistics. In Israel’s case, he noted, about 140 people normally die every day. To have shuttered much of the economy because of a virus that is killing one or two a day is a radical error that is unnecessarily costing Israel 20% of its GDP, he charged.

http://timesofisrael.com/top-israeli...after-70-days/