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Post by Merrill »

kilroy_jones wrote: post #6

Taiwan is included as part of China on this map, which it's not. WHO also excludes Taiwan from participating and gaining access to important information that can save people. Thank the WHO for making the world a little less safe by withholding information from those who need it.

Both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China claim to be the sole legitimate government of all of China. Only one color is needed.

>The political and legal statuses of Taiwan are contentious issues. The People's Republic of China (PRC) claims that the Republic of China government is illegitimate, referring to it as the "Taiwan Authority". The ROC has its own constitution, independently elected president and armed forces. It has not formally renounced its claim to the mainland, but ROC government publications have increasingly downplayed it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan

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Post by wetpaws »

choeger wrote: post #8
ak39 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/... I have this page open for the last 24 hours. It updates whenever the journos have tangible info. Dreadful.

Scare mongering. Do that with the normal flu for comparison.

Thought this way too untill I checked CDC stats on flu. Death/hospitalisation rates are completely uncompatable.

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Post by jonathanstrange »

choeger wrote: post #8
ak39 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/... I have this page open for the last 24 hours. It updates whenever the journos have tangible info. Dreadful.

Scare mongering. Do that with the normal flu for comparison.

All of this is in addition to the normal flu.

Re: Novel Coronavirus situation reports

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Post by catalogia »

FooBarWidget wrote: post #9
kilroy_jones wrote: post #6

Taiwan is included as part of China on this map, which it's not. WHO also excludes Taiwan from participating and gaining access to important information that can save people. Thank the WHO for making the world a little less safe by withholding information from those who need it.

> Taiwan is included as part of China on this map Where do you see that? I only see mention of "Taiwan" on the map, no mention of whether or not it's part of mainland China. > which it's not Regardless of whether it's "de-facto independent" and whether the mainland has a legitimate claim or not, the de-jure situation is that Taiwan is not recognized by the United Nations. And I think now is not the time to argue abou…

The map on page one of 'Situation report - 7' colors China red, and includes Taiwan in that coloring.

(There are currently five confirmed cases in Taiwan, so Taiwan should be colored beige on that map, not red.)

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Post by GrumpyNl »

choeger wrote: post #8
ak39 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/... I have this page open for the last 24 hours. It updates whenever the journos have tangible info. Dreadful.

Scare mongering. Do that with the normal flu for comparison.

It doesnt replace the flue, its an addition.

Re: Novel Coronavirus situation reports

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Post by cf141q5325 »

There just was the first confirmed human to human infection outside of Asia in Germany. A guy got sick over the weekend, went to work on Monday as he felt better and was sent to the doctor by his boss. He got infected during a seminar in Germany where he got into contact with a women from Shanghai whos parents are from Wuhan.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-deutschland-107...

edit: englisch source

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/germany-european-coun...

>The Chinese employee, a woman from Shanghai, "started to feel sick on the flight home on January 23", Andreas Zapf, head of the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety, said at a news conference.

Unfortunately not a date for the meeting yet.

edit2: corrections added, thank you

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Post by sanxiyn »

cf141q5325 wrote: post #16

There just was the first confirmed human to human infection outside of Asia in Germany. A guy got sick over the weekend, went to work on Monday as he felt better and was sent to the doctor by his boss. He got infected during a seminar in Germany where he got into contact with a women from Shanghai whos parents are from Wuhan. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-deutschland-107... edit: englisch source https:…

This is super important. Asymptomatic infection is wild card.

https://twitter.com/akihheikkinen/status/1222108700262981633

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Post by dzdt »

cf141q5325 wrote: post #16

There just was the first confirmed human to human infection outside of Asia in Germany. A guy got sick over the weekend, went to work on Monday as he felt better and was sent to the doctor by his boss. He got infected during a seminar in Germany where he got into contact with a women from Shanghai whos parents are from Wuhan. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-deutschland-107... edit: englisch source https:…

Correction: the Chinese colleague was from Shanghai. She had been visited by her parents, who live near Wuhan, shortly before her trip to Germany.

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Post by netsharc »

cf141q5325 wrote: post #16

There just was the first confirmed human to human infection outside of Asia in Germany. A guy got sick over the weekend, went to work on Monday as he felt better and was sent to the doctor by his boss. He got infected during a seminar in Germany where he got into contact with a women from Shanghai whos parents are from Wuhan. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-deutschland-107... edit: englisch source https:…

> a women who visited Wuhan recently.

The German article says the lady was visited in Shanghai by her parents, who live in the Wuhan area.

That's a pretty fast-spreading virus...

Re: Novel Coronavirus situation reports

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Post by cf141q5325 »

cf141q5325 wrote: post #16

There just was the first confirmed human to human infection outside of Asia in Germany. A guy got sick over the weekend, went to work on Monday as he felt better and was sent to the doctor by his boss. He got infected during a seminar in Germany where he got into contact with a women from Shanghai whos parents are from Wuhan. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-deutschland-107... edit: englisch source https:…

The German Minister of Health (Jens Spahn) just gave a live interview. The German government made it mandatory for airlines to keep seating charts for 30 days and ask every traveler from China for a contact address where the person can be reached the next month. The Airlines will be mandated tomorrow, but it will take 3-5 days till the new regulation for hospitals to take effect, which makes reporting "Begründete Verdachtsfälle" "justified suspected-cases" mandatory, ie if you have the symptoms AND have been in China or had contact with someone infected. The minister also took the opportunity to criticizes all this panic and conspiracy theories in the internet.

Everything is fine, nothing to do, nothing to see. What a shitshow its like the events from this morning hadnt happened yet.

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