You still haven’t addressed China’s muzzling of scientist.
China was dealing with covid all through December, but were suppose to believe that there was only limited evidence of transmission?
Come on man, you’re smarter than to believe such propaganda, especially when China completely shut down Wuhan shorty after the inexcusably wrong assessment from the WHO.
I’ve posted several times on China’s irresponsible behaviour and their muzzling of scientists. If only Harper was doing it, then you might actually give a damn. Instead you just go on carrying water for a ruthless dictatorship, all because orange man is bad. Get some help for that.
please substantiate your statement: "the inexcusably wrong assessment from the WHO"... what wrong assessment, made when?
your nattering about "muzzled scientists" needs contextual reference and a relevant timeline. I appreciate you're used to just sayin' whatever, but again, on this board substantiation is the norm. What's most pointedly needed is for you to provide the period of time over which said "irresponsible behaviour & scientist muzzling" occurred... that is to say, what impact it had.
you speak of, "China dealing with COVID all through December" - please provide details and a timeline that supports your statement, with particular attention given to your "all through December" reference. I've put forward numerous posts that have dated events within them... events that align with formal notifications made by China to international health organizations/the WHO; events that correlate with published scientific papers; the sharing of sequenced genome data, etc..
I look forward to reading your factual, legitimate and substantiated accounting of your claimed irresponsible behaviour/scientists muzzling by China - and, again, most pointedly how that aligns/fits within the broader public knowledge of China notifications and actions taken to aid foreign governments/international health organizations/scientific community.
China was slammed for initial COVID-19 secrecy, but its scientists led the way in tackling the virus The accusation that the Chinese government delayed in letting the world know about the COVID-19 outbreak has become a political weapon in countries including the US, the UK and Canada.
But China’s scientists have won international praise for hitting several key milestones in understanding the novel, fast-moving virus.
Chinese leaders were seen as slow to react to the outbreak that began in the city of Wuhan, suppressing information and even punishing those who raised the alarm.
“There was an early cover up in Wuhan, perhaps a few days to a week, before the threat was accepted. We will never know if faster action in those first days could have averted the outbreak,” said Ian Jones, professor of biomedical sciences at Reading University.
Despite the initial slow reaction from the government, “There has been a very open dialogue [since] and many research findings from the Chinese experience are now appearing,” says Jones.
In January, a team led by Yong-Zhen Zhang, of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre & School of Public Health, published the initial viral genome on two open-access sites, drawing praise for the swiftest sequencing effort ever. Later that month, Chinese doctors and scientists reported the first description of the new disease in the Lancet medical journal.
“Under immense pressure, as the epidemic exploded around them, they took time to write up their findings in a foreign language and seek publication in a medical journal thousands of miles away. Their rapid and rigorous work was an urgent warning to the world. We owe those scientists enormous thanks,” said Richard Horton, Lancet editor.
At the University of Hong Kong, researchers are developing a COVID-19 vaccine, novel screening agents, diagnostic tests and models of infection to trace the source and help prevent future occurrences.
“[We] were among the first teams in the world to produce a detailed cluster report, epidemiology report, electron microscope images and mathematical model of the potential spread of the virus,” said Zhang Xiang, president and vice-chancellor of the university. “Most Hong Kong residents still remember the experience of living through SARS in 2003, several instances of avian influenza, MERS, and now COVID-19.”
Any disagreements over how countries have managed the epidemic has not trickled down into labs, says Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health in the University of Southampton. “Whilst there will always be the politics of mistrust, I think, broadly, we’re seeing reasonable cooperation between China and elsewhere,” he said.
“The Chinese have been leading the way in publishing open-access evidence on case management, genomics and numerous areas of public health and epidemiology, which has been vital in informing the response in more or less every country.”