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China tells WHO it has no 'unusual or novel diseases' amid spike in illness among children (www.abc.net.au)

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The data showed an increase in hospital admissions of children due to diseases including bacterial infection, RSV, influenza and common cold viruses since October.

Leading scientists said the situation warranted close monitoring, but were not convinced the spike signalled the start of a new global outbreak.

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The standard wording of the alert echoed the first-ever notice about what would become COVID-19, sent on December 30, 2019: "Undiagnosed pneumonia — China (Hubei)."

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[-] IAmWaitingForARetcon@lemm.ee 76 points 11 months ago

Covid has forever tainted China in the eyes of the world in this aspect- few will ever believe them when they say that there’s no novel disease.

[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Covid. And Swine Flu. And Bird Flu.

that's just the last 20 years.

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev -2 points 11 months ago

Swine flu had its first outbreak in America.

[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 36 points 11 months ago

It was proven that transmission of swine flu to humans was possible in a study in Iowa in 2004. The same year that transmission to humans actually happened in the wild in China.

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

There is no novel disease.

Its Covid. Covid is now endemic and newer mutations are targeting youth.

[-] alternative_factor@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago

That's interesting I read that it was Mycoplasma pneumoniae, not a new pathogen but a report says it's resistant to a new antibiotic.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-hospitals-children-pneumonia-respiratory-illness-who-data-rcna126480

[-] Melkath@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago

The concealment of covid data that began about a year ago to hide the truth.

[-] alternative_factor@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes of course China covered up COVID, however I believe that this actually probably is M. Pneumoniae as it's famous for spreading in schools amongst children as well as already resistant to many antibiotics because it has no cell wall.
My one concern is that this could secretly be a human to human form of avian influenza, but there is absolutely no hiding a disease with a mortality rate on par with Ebola (30-50% or 18-30%- as much as Spanish Flu or the black death) for very long at all. COVID has around a 1% mortality rate and there were people posting videos of people dying in the streets on Chinese social media, if it's avian flue than there will be mass graves on an unheard of scale.

[-] Melkath@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago

So you agree.

Masks and social distancing saves lives from not only covid, but from a series of other similar pathogens.

[-] alternative_factor@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Yes masking is essential.

[+] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml -30 points 11 months ago

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[-] PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

You were around when this happened. For gods sake it was all happening live in front of everyone a couple of years ago.

It’s literally impossible for you to actually be this ignorant about it.

I understand trolling, I get the propaganda hype, I get brain rot; but this, this is just plain ignorant.

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

That is entirely not untrue. This is pure anti-china propaganda that is very easily verifiable.

The earliest examples of COVID were found by Zhang Jixian and the hospital alerted in 27th of December. This was communicated to the WHO the 31st of December after a larger amount of cases were identified (Source: official WHO publication). The timeline is abundantly clear

There are some traces of COVID that date back to November 2019 in China, but that is also true in Europe so that's hardly a proof of Chinese maliciousness.

We were told lies about how China didn't warn us because our politicians -- I'm saying that as an European but that's true of the US as well -- ostensibly refused to hear China's warnings for weeks before we started seeing cases skyrocket. So their choice was to either take responsibility, or blame someone else. China is both the origin country of the disease and a political enemy, so it was the easiest target.

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