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I'm curious about a rather immaterial point in the corona virus reporting: Why does everyone discuss 'mainland China'? What are they trying to clarify by putting that 'mainland' word in? It surely can't be Taiwan, since these are Western articles, whose audience probably won't confuse the two. So is it about Hong Kong? That doesn't make much sense either, since most of Hong Kong is on the mainland. And yet, while the…
Mainland China is PRC.
I'm curious about a rather immaterial point in the corona virus reporting: Why does everyone discuss 'mainland China'? What are they trying to clarify by putting that 'mainland' word in? It surely can't be Taiwan, since these are Western articles, whose audience probably won't confuse the two. So is it about Hong Kong? That doesn't make much sense either, since most of Hong Kong is on the mainland. And yet, while the…
Why does the article finish in the middle of a sentence?
This article is junk, and I don't understand why we're accepting medical analysis from a random trader. A few of the more obvious flaws: * At this point in the epidemic you can't compute fatality rates simply by deaths/recoveries, because recoveries lag deaths by several weeks (once you're dead you're dead, but if you survive it takes a few weeks to recover and start testing negative). * It is well known that China i…
Oh, but the author's other content inspires so much faith!
This article is junk, and I don't understand why we're accepting medical analysis from a random trader. A few of the more obvious flaws: * At this point in the epidemic you can't compute fatality rates simply by deaths/recoveries, because recoveries lag deaths by several weeks (once you're dead you're dead, but if you survive it takes a few weeks to recover and start testing negative). * It is well known that China i…
what is worrying is that the percentage of 'serious/critical' cases seems to be stable at 20%. Regardless of fatality rate, if this holds, and the virus becomes pandemic it will impose a significant burden on health systems.
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So is Hainan!
Then why are you wondering why it is included? Mainland in this case is a geopolitical term.
This article is junk, and I don't understand why we're accepting medical analysis from a random trader. A few of the more obvious flaws: * At this point in the epidemic you can't compute fatality rates simply by deaths/recoveries, because recoveries lag deaths by several weeks (once you're dead you're dead, but if you survive it takes a few weeks to recover and start testing negative). * It is well known that China i…
While I agree with your other points, the idea that transmission in Japan is petering out is wildly optimistic and not what epidemiologists in Japan are saying. Unfortunately, you can couple that with the possibility of transmission in states where the medical infrastructure is especially weak (in Africa, for example, where millions of Chinese people work).
This article is junk, and I don't understand why we're accepting medical analysis from a random trader. A few of the more obvious flaws: * At this point in the epidemic you can't compute fatality rates simply by deaths/recoveries, because recoveries lag deaths by several weeks (once you're dead you're dead, but if you survive it takes a few weeks to recover and start testing negative). * It is well known that China i…
i agree, complete garbage. what is worrying is that the percentage of 'serious/critical' cases seems to be stable at 20%. Regardless of fatality rate, if this holds, and the virus becomes pandemic it will impose a significant burden on health systems.
This article is junk, and I don't understand why we're accepting medical analysis from a random trader. A few of the more obvious flaws: * At this point in the epidemic you can't compute fatality rates simply by deaths/recoveries, because recoveries lag deaths by several weeks (once you're dead you're dead, but if you survive it takes a few weeks to recover and start testing negative). * It is well known that China i…
This CoVid19 outbreak in the age of social media has caused too many wanna-be epidemiologists to post their unfiltered, unscientific opinions and present them as facts. How can we ever get reliable information from that?