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China Cannot Explain Death of ‘Cured’ Coronavirus Patient 79 STR/AFP via Getty Images JOHN HAYWARD6 Mar 2020285 4:30 A Chinese woman named Wang Mei is demanding to know why her “cured” husband died of the coronavirus five days after he was released from a Wuhan medical center. The death of 36-year-old Li Liang prompted clinics across the city to stop discharging patients, while hospitals in other parts of China are reporting an unsettling number of relapses and re-infections. Li Liang was diagnosed with the coronavirus on February 4 and admitted to one of Wuhan’s improvised virus hospitals on February 12. On February 26, he was released after testing negative for two days, his fever seemingly cleared up, although scans showed massive damage to his lungs from the infection. As per regulations, Li was relocated to a quarantine center in a local hotel for 14 days of isolation and observation. He began complaining of renewed symptoms on February 28 and was too weak to stand by March 2. The doctors attributed his weakness to “stress” and refused to let his wife see him. Li was back in the hospital by the afternoon of March 2 and dead by sundown. He died in his wife’s arms, telling her that he wanted to go home. She said she wept over his body for hours until a funeral home collected his remains. Wang Mei told the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Friday that she has been calling local government officials every day looking for an explanation of her husband’s death. “He only had a low temperature when he was admitted, only just a bit of coughing. In hospital, he took herbal medicine twice a day. Later he even became a volunteer at the hospital, moving supplies,” she said. Doctors consulted by the SCMP said the CAT scan showing damage to Li’s lungs three days before he was released was concerning but not proof that his coronavirus infection had returned. Wang Mei was especially angry that the “quarantine hotel” did not seem to be monitoring her husband’s condition carefully. She had to call for help to get medical staff to examine him during his final hours, and she had to call for an ambulance herself when she was told he needed to return to the hospital, a journey he did not live to complete. “He had been recovering fine, why did I need to call the ambulance within 10 minutes of my arrival? I was so anxious that I even dialed the number wrong the first time,” she told the SCMP. “On March 1, he already felt under the weather. On March 2, I watched him pass away, how can that happen?” she asked. “They didn’t even try to resuscitate him.” Wang Mei was undeterred by quick and ruthless censorship of Li’s story, which was pulled down from two Chinese news websites soon after it was posted. “Our lives have been turned upside down. No matter what happens, I want an answer,” she said. According to reports that haven’t been censored from local media, Wuhan’s network of makeshift coronavirus clinics decided to stop discharging most patients in the wake of Li’s death. Under rules imposed by Wuhan city health authorities, patients will now be discharged only if they display seven days of normal body temperature, high levels of blood oxygen saturation, improved lung condition, and negative results from at least two tests for the coronavirus. Additionally, hospitals are now monitoring patients for the presence of antibodies that indicate their bodies are fighting a coronavirus infection, a test devised within the past two weeks by Chinese virologists. The notice imposing these rules did not mention Li by name, but it did say there have recently been “many relapsed patients who were later treated at hospitals again.” The first rumblings of significant relapse or reinfection problems were heard in late February in Japan and China, leading doctors to suspect the coronavirus can go dormant and lurk in the body until the antibodies created to combat it have dissipated. Another complication is that scientists believe there are at least two strains of the Wuhan coronavirus, one of them more virulent and dangerous than the other. The significance of the second strain is still hotly debated among epidemiologists, but it could complicate the lives of patients who recover from one strain and are subsequently exposed to the other — a significant danger for patients like Li who are obliged to spend a long period recovering in one of China’s improvised, crowded, and dubiously sanitary quarantine facilities.
I don't know what's worse for trump, saying he tried to cut CDC budget and failed, just to counter the narrative, or to let the opposition write the narrative.
It’s just a page from the DNC playbook, politicize everything and spin it against your opponents. They did it with Bush and as soon as Obama took office, although nothing changed, magically everything in the news was rainbows and unicorns. Then bang! Trump wins in 2016 and back to doom and gloom. Just have to tune out their BS.
“The List” – Interesting and Quietly Overlooked Remarks by Secretary Pompeo… Posted on April 12, 2020 by sundance With an increased awareness of how some U.S. politicians appear to be reacting to the COVID-19 challenges; and with a new American perspective toward the way media outlets, some businesses and many politicians appear to be influenced by China; it’s worth revisiting a recent speech by Secretary of State Pompeo that might have been overlooked. Pompeo’s remarks were made to the National Governors Association (NGA) Feb 8, 2020; and there’s an interesting segment where Pompeo reveals his awareness of a list of U.S. governors compiled by China’s communist party; and their alignment with China’s interests. A transcript of the key excerpt from his speech is provided. WATCH: [Transcript at 01:45] […] “Last year, I received an invitation to an event that promised to be, quote, “an occasion for exclusive deal-making.” It said, quote, “the opportunities for mutually beneficial economic development between China and our individual states [are] tremendous,” end of quote.” “Deal-making sounds like it might have come from President Trump, but the invitation was actually from a former governor. I was being invited to the U.S.-China Governors’ Collaboration Summit. It was an event co-hosted by the National Governors Association and something called the Chinese People’s Association For Friendship and Foreign Countries. Sounds pretty harmless. What the invitation did not say is that the group – the group I just mentioned – is the public face of the Chinese Communist Party’s official foreign influence agency, the United Front Work Department. Now, I was lucky. I was familiar with that organization from my time as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. But it got me thinking. How many of you made the link between that group and Chinese Communist Party officials? What if you made a new friend while you were at that event? What if your new friend asked you for introductions to other politically connected and powerful people? What if your new friend offered to invest big money in your state, perhaps in your pension, in industries sensitive to our national security? These aren’t hypotheticals. These scenarios are all too true, and they impact American foreign policy significantly. Indeed, last year, a Chinese Government-backed think tank in Beijing produced a report that assessed all 50 of America’s governors on their attitudes towards China. They labeled each of you “friendly,” “hardline,” or “ambiguous.” I’ll let you decide where you think you belong. Someone in China already has. Many of you, indeed, in that report are referenced by name. So here’s the lesson: The lesson is that competition with China is not just a federal issue. It’s why I wanted to be here today, Governor Hogan. It’s happening in your states with consequences for our foreign policy, for the citizens that reside in your states, and indeed, for each of you. And, in fact, whether you are viewed by the CCP as friendly or hardline, know that it’s working you, know that it’s working the team around you. Competition with China is happening inside of your state, and it affects our capacity to perform America’s vital national security functions.” (Keep Reading) It sure sounds to me like Secretary Pompeo and President Trump have that list of China-friendly governors…. Oh my. Very interesting. UPDATE: Axios had an article earlier this year and included the Chinese Communist Party Report [Cloud pdf Here] It will be interesting to see how and when each of these governors responds to the re-opening of their economy post COVID-19 peak. Will there be a correlation to their CCP assigned alignment? We’ll keep watching…
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