ABOVE: The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. Picture: Hector Retamal/AFP
OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ...THE CDC IN ATLANTA? NIH? W.H.O.?
The Tea Room can scarcely believe who broke this story.
CNN!
The Wuhan files
Leaked documents reveal China's mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19
CNN's key findings
--Chinese officials gave the world more optimistic data than they had access to internally
--China's system took on average 23 days to diagnose confirmed patients, and testing failures meant most received negative results until January 10
--A history of under-funding, under-staffing, poor morale and bureaucratic models of governance hampered China's early warning system, internal audits found
--A large and previously undisclosed outbreak of influenza happened in early December in Hubei province.
117 pages of leaked documents from the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, shared with and verified by CNN.
[CNN VERIFIES? NO WAY! WHO KNEW?]
Taken together, the documents amount to the most significant leak from inside China since the beginning of the pandemic and provide the first clear window into what local authorities knew internally and when.
One of the more striking data points concerns the slowness with which local Covid-19 patients were diagnosed.
Even as authorities in Hubei presented their handling of the initial outbreak to the public as efficient and transparent, the documents show that local health officials were reliant on flawed testing and reporting mechanisms.
A report in the documents from early March says the average time between the onset of symptoms to confirmed diagnosis was 23.3 days, which experts have told CNN would have significantly hampered steps to both monitor and combat the disease.
Health experts said the documents laid bare why what China knew in the early months mattered.
"It was clear they did make mistakes -- and not just mistakes that happen when you're dealing with a novel virus -- also bureaucratic and politically-motivated errors in how they handled it," said Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, who has written extensively on public health in China. hese [mistakes] had global consequences,
Health experts said the documents laid bare why what China knew in the early months mattered.
"It was clear they did make mistakes -- and not just mistakes that happen when you're dealing with a novel virus -- also bureaucratic and politically-motivated errors in how they handled it," said Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, who has written extensively on public health in China. hese [mistakes] had global consequences,
CNN claims he also said, "But even if they had been 100% transparent, that would not stop the Trump administration downplaying the seriousness of it."
Ummm, hello, Huang, since CHINA lied and the W.H.O. was slow to call it a pandemic, and the CDC initially REFUSED to test and then created a FAULTY test and STILL refused to test properly, and since both the CDC and W.H.O. said NO MASKS, etc, HOW THE HELL WAS IT TRUMP AT FAULT?
He was going by W.H.O., CDC AND FDA GUIDELINES AND BY CHINA'S "WORD" ON WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
"They [CHINA] were still hoping it was like 2003, and like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) would be eventually contained, and everything can go back to normal," added Yang, who is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He pointed to the February 7 call between presidents Trump and Xi. "I think that's also the (wishful) impression that Trump got -- that this is going to disappear," added Dali Yang, who has extensively studied the outbreak's origins.
Yang is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
On Thursday, March 5th, Vice President Mike Pence said the U.S. did not have enough tests "to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward."
(NEW VIRUS, NO TESTS FOR IT YET STOCKPILED HERE.)
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) asked for an explanation as to why the U.S. is not using a World Health Organization (WHO) test and an estimate on how many patients will be able to receive testing in the near future.
"The COVID-19 test kit could have been in use earlier if the CDC had used one initially developed by the World Health Organization. Instead, the CDC raced to develop its own."
(MAYBE SO THE CDC COULD CONTROL RESULTS?)
INITIAL CDC ESTIMATES PUT THE RISK AT BETWEEN 0.01% AND 1%, GLOBALLY.
THAT SUDDENLY GREW TO 3.4%.
CDC SAID THE TESTING CAPABILITY WAS CURRENTLY AT "SEVERAL THOUSAND PER DAY" BACK IN MARCH, PER DAY, BUT ONLY 1,875 HAD BEEN TESTED IN 3 MONTHS?
According to NPR, the CDC has revised the estimate downward from its estimate in mid-April. Internal versions of the CDC scenario documents acquired by the Center for Public Integrity show that on April 14, the CDC had estimated a 0.33% fatality rate. That was up from a March 31 estimate of 0.16%.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
THE W.H.O.'s CHIEF IMBECILE, TEDROS, WAS BACKING WHAT CHINA SAID ALL THE WAY AND W.H.O. WAS CORROBORATING WITH CHINA ON THE VERY FIRST PUBLISHED STUDIES.
W.H.O.'s LIP PRINTS ARE ALL OVER CHINA'S HUGE REAR END, HUANG, AND YOU AND CNN KNOW THAT.
December 1, marks one year since the first known patient showed symptoms of the disease in the Hubei provincial capital of Wuhan, according to a key study in the Lancet medical journal.
At the same time that the virus is believed to have first emerged, the documents show another health crisis was unfolding: Hubei was dealing with a significant influenza outbreak.
It caused cases to rise to 20 times the level recorded the previous year.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) asked for an explanation as to why the U.S. is not using a World Health Organization (WHO) test and an estimate on how many patients will be able to receive testing in the near future.
"The COVID-19 test kit could have been in use earlier if the CDC had used one initially developed by the World Health Organization. Instead, the CDC raced to develop its own."
(MAYBE SO THE CDC COULD CONTROL RESULTS?)
INITIAL CDC ESTIMATES PUT THE RISK AT BETWEEN 0.01% AND 1%, GLOBALLY.
THAT SUDDENLY GREW TO 3.4%.
CDC SAID THE TESTING CAPABILITY WAS CURRENTLY AT "SEVERAL THOUSAND PER DAY" BACK IN MARCH, PER DAY, BUT ONLY 1,875 HAD BEEN TESTED IN 3 MONTHS?
According to NPR, the CDC has revised the estimate downward from its estimate in mid-April. Internal versions of the CDC scenario documents acquired by the Center for Public Integrity show that on April 14, the CDC had estimated a 0.33% fatality rate. That was up from a March 31 estimate of 0.16%.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
THE W.H.O.'s CHIEF IMBECILE, TEDROS, WAS BACKING WHAT CHINA SAID ALL THE WAY AND W.H.O. WAS CORROBORATING WITH CHINA ON THE VERY FIRST PUBLISHED STUDIES.
W.H.O.'s LIP PRINTS ARE ALL OVER CHINA'S HUGE REAR END, HUANG, AND YOU AND CNN KNOW THAT.
December 1, marks one year since the first known patient showed symptoms of the disease in the Hubei provincial capital of Wuhan, according to a key study in the Lancet medical journal.
At the same time that the virus is believed to have first emerged, the documents show another health crisis was unfolding: Hubei was dealing with a significant influenza outbreak.
It caused cases to rise to 20 times the level recorded the previous year.
The "influenza epidemic," as officials noted in the document, was not only present in Wuhan in December, but was greatest in the neighboring cities of Yichang and Xianning. It remains unclear what impact or connection the influenza spike had on the Covid-19 outbreak. And while there is no suggestion in the documents the two parallel crises are linked, information regarding the magnitude of Hubei's influenza spike has still yet to be made public."
"We're just not that great at diagnosing them. We look for the usual suspects. We're always looking for the horses, but never the zebras."
NO SUGGESTION THAT THAT "FLU" WAS ACTUALLY SARS-CoV2, RIGHT, CNN?
The leaked revelations come as pressure builds from the U.S. and the European Union on China to fully cooperate with a World Health Organization inquiry into the origins of the virus that has since spread to every corner of the globe, infecting more than 60 million people and killing 1.46 million.
But, so far, access for international experts to hospital medial records and raw data in Hubei has been limited, with the WHO saying last week they had "reassurances from our Chinese government colleagues that a trip to the field" would be granted as part of their investigation.
The files were presented to CNN by a whistleblower who requested anonymity. They said they worked inside the Chinese healthcare system, and were a patriot motivated to expose a truth that had been censored, and honor colleagues who had also spoken out. It is unclear how the documents were obtained or why specific papers were selected.
The documents have been verified by six independent experts who examined the veracity of their content on behalf of CNN. One expert with close ties to China reported seeing some of the reports during confidential research earlier this year.
The leaked revelations come as pressure builds from the U.S. and the European Union on China to fully cooperate with a World Health Organization inquiry into the origins of the virus that has since spread to every corner of the globe, infecting more than 60 million people and killing 1.46 million.
But, so far, access for international experts to hospital medial records and raw data in Hubei has been limited, with the WHO saying last week they had "reassurances from our Chinese government colleagues that a trip to the field" would be granted as part of their investigation.
The files were presented to CNN by a whistleblower who requested anonymity. They said they worked inside the Chinese healthcare system, and were a patriot motivated to expose a truth that had been censored, and honor colleagues who had also spoken out. It is unclear how the documents were obtained or why specific papers were selected.
The documents have been verified by six independent experts who examined the veracity of their content on behalf of CNN. One expert with close ties to China reported seeing some of the reports during confidential research earlier this year.
A European security official with knowledge of Chinese internal documents and procedures also confirmed to CNN that the files were genuine.
Digital forensic analysis was also performed to test their computer code against their purported origins.
Digital forensic analysis was also performed to test their computer code against their purported origins.
Andrew Mertha, director of the China Studies Program at John Hopkins University, said officials might have been motivated to "lowball" numbers to disguise under-funding and preparedness issues in local health care bodies like the provincial CDC.
According to Mertha, the documents, which he reviewed and considered authentic, seemed to be organized so as to allow senior officials to paint whatever picture they wished.China's diagnostic criteria have been criticized by health experts for their continued, public decision to not count asymptomatic cases.
By early February, laboratories in Hubei had capacity to test more than 10,000 people a day, according to state media reports. To cope with the high volume, officials decided to begin incorporating other clinical diagnosis methods, such as CT scans. This led to the creation of category referred to internally as "clinically diagnosed cases."
It was not until mid-February that the clinically diagnosed cases were added to the confirmed case numbers.
The report characterizes the Hubei CDC as underfunded, lacking the right testing equipment, and with unmotivated staff who were often felt ignored in China's vast bureaucracy.
The report characterizes the Hubei CDC as underfunded, lacking the right testing equipment, and with unmotivated staff who were often felt ignored in China's vast bureaucracy.
The documents include an internal audit, which forensic analysis shows was written in October 2019, before the pandemic began.
More than four months after the virus was first identified, major issues continued to hamper disease control efforts in key areas, the documents show.
The Chinese government has previously pointed to the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan as the likely initial epicenter of the outbreak in mid-December, where meat of exotic wild animals was sold. Yet that claim has been at least partially challenged by a Lancet study of the first December patients, which determined one third of the 41 infected that month had no direct connection to that market.
Mertha, the China expert from JHU, said the spike in Yichang, while not connected to Covid-19 in the documents, could nonetheless open up new theories about where the virus began.
"The order of magnitude of change means there has to be something going on," he said.
Mertha also said the mismatch between the higher internal and lower public figures on the February death toll "appeared to be a deception, for unsurprising reasons."
"China had an image to protect internationally, and lower-ranking officials had a clear incentive to under-report -- or to show their superiors that they were under-reporting -- to outside eyes," he said.
Nowhere in the files is it indicated that officials believed the virus would become a global pandemic.
PSSST, CNN, WE KNEW MOST OF THIS BACK IN MAY THIS YEAR, BUT YOU DIDN'T "REPORT" ON IT?
A 15-page document, obtained by Australia's The Saturday Telegraph, has laid the foundation for a case being created against China for its handling of the deadly disease.
The dossier, from the Five Eyes intelligence agencies of the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, stated that China's secrecy surrounding the virus led to an "assault on international transparency".
It said: "Despite evidence of human-human transmission from early December, PRC authorities deny it until January 20.
"The World Health Organisation does the same. Yet officials in Taiwan raised concerns as early as December 31, as did experts in Hong Kong on January 4."
It has been claimed that:
- --China denied the virus could be spread between humans during the outbreak's early stages
- --The Communist nation then took weeks to admit it could be passed on in this way
- --Doctors who spoke out were silenced or "disappeared"
- --A lab in Wuhan had been studying deadly bat-derived coronaviruses
- --China destroyed evidence of the virus in its laboratories
- It refused to send samples to scientists across the globe working on a vaccine
- --Beijing imposed travel bans on its own people but told other nations similar restrictions were not necessary
LOOK WHAT W.H.O. SAID IN EARLY JANUARY...
The WHO tweeted China had found 'no clear evidence' of human-to-human transmission of the virus.
The file specifically details that China began censoring news of the virus from December 31.
A November 2015 study, done in conjunction with the University of North Carolina, concluded that the SARS-like virus could jump directly from bats to humans and there was no treatment that could help.
The study acknowledges the incredible danger of the work they were conducting.
“The potential to prepare for and mitigate future outbreaks must be weighed against the risk of creating more dangerous pathogens,” they wrote.
A few years later, in March 2019, Dr. Shi and her team, including Peng Zhou, who worked in Australia for five years, published a review titled Bat Coronaviruses in China in the medical journal Viruses, where they wrote that they “aim to predict virus hot spots and their cross-species transmission potential”, describing it as a matter of “urgency to study bat coronaviruses in China to understand their potential of causing another outbreak. Their review stated: “It is highly likely that future SARS or MERS like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China.”
The Controversial Experiments and Wuhan Lab Suspected of Starting the Coronavirus Pandemic
4/27/20
Just one day after the U.S. surpassed China to become the country with the highest number of Covid-19 cases, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency updated its assessment of the origin of the novel coronavirus to reflect that it may have been accidentally released from an infectious diseases lab, Newsweek has learned.
The report, dated March 27 and corroborated by two U.S. officials, reveals that U.S. intelligence revised its January assessment in which it "judged that the outbreak probably occurred naturally" to now include the possibility that the new coronavirus emerged "accidentally" due to "unsafe laboratory practices" in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pathogen was first observed late last year.
The classified report, titled "China: Origins of COVID-19 Outbreak Remain Unknown," ruled out that the disease was genetically engineered or released intentionally as a biological weapon.
Citing academic literature, the DIA document states that a "definitive answer may never be known" as to how the disease truly first emerged.
The DIA report, however, cites U.S. government and Chinese researchers that found "about 33 percent of the original 41 identified cases did not have direct exposure" to the market. That, along with what's known of the laboratory's work in past few years, raised reasonable suspicion that the pandemic may have been caused by a lab error, not the wet market.
Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists have for the past five years been engaged in so-called "gain of function" (GOF) research, which is designed to enhance certain properties of viruses for the purpose of anticipating future pandemics.
Gain-of-function techniques have been used to turn viruses into human pathogens capable of causing a global pandemic.
The Wuhan lab received funding, mostly for virus discovery, in part from a ten-year, $200 million international program called PREDICT, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and other countries.
Similar work, funded in part by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, has been carried out in dozens of labs throughout the world. Some of this research involves taking deadly viruses and enhancing their ability to spread quickly through a population—research that took place over the objections of hundreds of scientists, who have warned for years of the program's potential to cause a pandemic.
In the years since the SARS outbreak, many instances of mishaps involving the accidental release of pathogens have taken place in labs throughout the world. Hundreds of breaches have occurred in the U.S., including a 2014 release of anthrax from a U.S. government lab that exposed 84 people.
The SARS virus escaped from a Beijing lab in 2004, causing four infections and one death.
An accidental release is not complicated and doesn't require malicious intent. All it takes is for a lab worker to get sick, go home for the night, and unwittingly spread the virus to others.
The Wuhan Institute has a record of shoddy practices that could conceivably lead to an accidental release, as officials at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing reportedly warned in a cable on January 19, 2018.
The Wuhan Institute has a record of shoddy practices that could conceivably lead to an accidental release, as officials at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing reportedly warned in a cable on January 19, 2018.
"During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory," states the cable, according to the Washington Post.
WE KNEW ALL OF THIS WHILE THE PRESS KEPT DAMNING OLD "ORANGE MAN BAD" WHILE FAWNING OVER FAUCI, THE LIAR, THE WUHAN BENEFACTOR.
THIS IS HOW THE WORLD FELL, A NATION AT A TIME, OVER A LOUSY CORONAVIRUS, THAT IS NOT, NOT, NOT MORE DANGEROUS THAN H1N1, WHICH WAS WHAT THE SPANISH FLU WAS.
FIRE AND TRY FAUCI FOR CRIMS AGAINST HUMANITY AND TKE BACK ALL OUR NATIONS!
GET ON WITH LIFE, WORLD!
THERE IS NO BOOGIE MONSTER OUT OF WUHAN.
IT'S ALL A PATHETIC FACADE, BUILT BY THE "EXPERTS" THE NIH, CDC, WHO, FDA TROTTED OUT, WHOM MOST NEVER QUESTION.
QUESTION EVERYTHING!
LEARN, SO THAT YOU DO NOT PERISH.
.
WE KNEW ALL OF THIS WHILE THE PRESS KEPT DAMNING OLD "ORANGE MAN BAD" WHILE FAWNING OVER FAUCI, THE LIAR, THE WUHAN BENEFACTOR.
THIS IS HOW THE WORLD FELL, A NATION AT A TIME, OVER A LOUSY CORONAVIRUS, THAT IS NOT, NOT, NOT MORE DANGEROUS THAN H1N1, WHICH WAS WHAT THE SPANISH FLU WAS.
FIRE AND TRY FAUCI FOR CRIMS AGAINST HUMANITY AND TKE BACK ALL OUR NATIONS!
GET ON WITH LIFE, WORLD!
THERE IS NO BOOGIE MONSTER OUT OF WUHAN.
IT'S ALL A PATHETIC FACADE, BUILT BY THE "EXPERTS" THE NIH, CDC, WHO, FDA TROTTED OUT, WHOM MOST NEVER QUESTION.
QUESTION EVERYTHING!
LEARN, SO THAT YOU DO NOT PERISH.
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