As countries race to deal with an outbreak that has begun spreading around the world, inciting panic and disrupting the global economy, the residents of Wuhan are waging a daily battle to survive an illness that has sickened more than 4,100 people and killed 224 in their city alone.
Last month, the government put Wuhan in a virtual lockdown, sealing off the city and banning most public transportation and private cars from its streets in a desperate effort to contain the outbreak. Now, many residents say it is nearly impossible to get the health care they need to treat — or even diagnose — the coronavirus.
Expressing exasperation, doctors say there is a shortage of testing kits and other medical supplies, and it is not clear why more are not available. The ban on transportation means some residents have to walk for hours to get to hospitals — if they are well enough to make the journey. Layers of bureaucracy stand between residents and help. And the long lines outside hospitals for testing and treatment suggest that the outbreak is spreading far beyond the official count of cases.
Ambulances, too, are hard to come by, residents say. In recent days, some say they have called 120, China’s equivalent of the emergency number 911, only to be told that there were already hundreds of people in the queue.
Those who do make it to the hospital say they are squeezed together for hours in waiting rooms, where infections are easily spread. But the shortages have meant that many are ultimately turned away and sent home to self-quarantine, potentially compounding the outbreak by exposing their families.
Many doctors and residents are putting their hopes on the two new coronavirus hospitals that China has been racing to build in Wuhan in just a matter of days. One of them spans about eight acres, has 1,000 beds and is scheduled to open on Monday. The government says 1,400 military medical workers will be deployed to work there, potentially helping with the shortage of health professionals on hand to combat the outbreak.
On Sunday, city officials announced plans to set up quarantine stations around Wuhan for people with symptoms of pneumonia and close contacts among coronavirus patients. But just over a week into the lockdown, many residents believe the virus has already spread much further than the official numbers suggest.
More… Chinese market drops 9.1% on Monday opening. Details at Zerohedge.
A comparative chart.
It probably IS nothing….until further notice.
H1N1, H5N1, Zika virus, Ebola etc…
None have really affected us.
This one COULD get bad but I’m not holding my breath until I should.
Beat me to it. I suspect that the absolutely nasty turbo flu that rolled through Van Island in Jan was this.
the internet is saying they are out of test kits….and because people can’t be tested….China is not reporting them
Pretty sure I’m a racist for even reading that
Canada is deploying a military medical team to get 325 Canadians out of China.
We’re deploying to Vietnam……??? Ok then.
Maybe the chicoms are playing hardball….naw they wouldn’t….would they?
yep…they are going to drop them off in Trenton. Then the people will be held there for 14 days. They will use the local accomodations of the base, and the meal hall.
Yeah…..great way to CONTAIN a deadly virus. Bring it to Canada, and let them run around a military base. China could not have planned it better.
If anyone gets sick in Canada because of this…thank Justin. What a bunch of idiots.
It was a blunder of historical proportions to outsource so much of western industry’s supply chain to China. There goes the entire business model of Silicon Valley.
Will the Wuhan syndrome cause a global recession? Possibly. Trouble is, the bad guys won’t be able to pin the blame on Donald Trump.
Take what comfort you can from that and the fact that the Grey Lady is starting to report something resembling the truth from China. A sign that the globalists may have finally turned on their Chinese partners. They don’t like it when they lose money.
“It was a blunder of historical proportions to outsource so much of western industry’s supply chain to China. ”
No it wasn’t. We saved a ton of money and are nothing but better off for it.
“we saved a ton of money”.
A company in the US employing 50 people manufacturing fiberglass products realizes one day that it can save a ton of money if it imports the products from China, lays off its staff and operates as a sales outlet and not a manufacturer. It keeps 5 people on staff after this transition.
That company exports its products to Mexico and Canada as well as selling nationally within the US. But because the origin of the products is China these exports no longer qualify for NAFTA so companies purchasing the product are nailed up to 24% in duties, plus HST in Canada and VAT in Mexico.
None of the extra fees are charged to the company importing the product. They are levied on the reselling of the product.
We did not save a ton of money. China made a ton of money and 1 company in the US became more profitable by shedding 45 jobs. When this happens on a larger scale local and regional taxes go up because there is less overall revenue in the game and politicians can’t cut spending.
I know this because I started doing it in my business. I saved a ton of money. The federal government knows this because in the past few years they have changed the rules for grants in R&D by specifying a minimum number of “employees” in a company. By “employees” they mean people who remit source deductions which is about the only tax the government has total control over.
“We?” Define “we.”
If you live on an Indian reserve and are paid by Ottawa to spend your whole worthless and short life in an alcoholic stupor, yeah, you probably saved a goddamn fortune on your big screen TV.
If you actually work for a living, you haven’t got a real pay rise in 40 years—unless you count the collapse in prices of synthetic opiates as a pay rise.
If you were a young white man whose parents weren’t already rich parasites, you had only one realistic career path—as cannon fodder in wars to keep oil flowing to Red China, from which you were not expected or encouraged to return alive, in one piece and with all your marbles. Meanwhile, the overseas Chinese took over the universities.
“We?” Get out of mommy’s basement and try to look for a job working indoors that doesn’t require you to be a native speaker of f*cking Mandarin. Then lecture us about how “we” are better off.
Oh, do shut up!
“Trouble is, the bad guys won’t be able to pin the blame on Donald Trump.”
You greatly underestimate them.
Already happened. You see Trump encourages scientific ignorance therefore the virus got ut and is spreading due to scientific ignorance therefore due to Trump.
Well, we apparently out-sourced a lot of biological specimens (involuntarily of course) by having Chinese researchers working in Canada sneak the stuff out of the level 4 lab……
China made this thing intentionally. It got out. Now we all have to deal with it.
We need to be asking who green-lighted this and why.
“Will the Wuhan syndrome cause a global recession?”
I hope not.
Shanghai almost -9%
India is in trouble, too.
Cut / Paste
Coronavirus outbreak death toll now 361: From CNN’s Steven Jiang
The Hubei health authority reported that 56 people died of the coronavirus on Sunday, raising the death toll since the beginning of the outbreak to 361.
Authorities confirmed an additional 2,103 cases of the virus in Hubei, according to the health authority, which brings the total number of cases to over 16,600.
The health authority said 9,618 patients have been hospitalized, including 478 who are in critical condition
Rough math on resolved cases.
Write off the 478, add the 361.
839/16600 = .0505
That’s the 5% mark. That’s a huge problem; period.
5- 14 day latency or incubation period is a huge problem; period.
Only a massive and lengthy containment effort will help mitigate this outbreak.
Period.
I have been informed by reliable /s sources that there is nothing to worry about! So Don’t worry be happy!
So you say your flu wont break!
You may think it’s already too late!
Don’t worry!
Be happy!
Don’t worry, be happy!
Government say we’re in good shape!
Hospital say we isolate!
Don’t worry!
Be happy!
Don’t worry, be happy!
Even though your friends may die
Government say we never lie!
Don’t worry!
Be happy!
Don’t worry be happy!
Apologies to Bobby 😉
Read the NYT piece, it adds weight to what many have speculated — they’re only testing the most severe cases, and a lot of people aren’t getting treatment (or being included in the stats) at all.
In that case, the mortality is actually much lowered than feared.
No, the dead that are not tested are not counted as nCov Coronavirus deaths, they are counted as normal everyday pneumonia deaths. If you have pneumonia and not admitted to a hospital, and are being not/un treated at home, you are very likely to die.
Here is what I saw reported, and I posted last night in the Readers Tips, about the Chinese Communist Party covering up these little details:
China is hiding Coronavirus deaths and illnesses. The rule is if they were not admitted to their overwhelmed hospitals, tested with the Coronavirus test strips and therefore confirmed as infected, they do not count. You can see the Bureaucratic Logic. They are not Coronavirus Illnesses and/or Deaths, they are General Pneumonia illnesses and deaths, and the Chinese Communist Party and local governors look better if there are fewer illnesses and deaths from Coronavirus.
https://mobile.twitter.com/balajis/status/1223822006132494336
They may not make the Bureaucrats lists, but they are just as dead, and their families are just as hurt.
Sounds like the same logic used to state unequivocally that lyme disease did not exist in Saskatchewan.
The only way to control cost with a “single payer”? Rationing.
When rationing, Jack Layton, Napoleon, Castro, … are always at the head of the queue.
360 dead. 480 recovered.
That’s out of 17000.
That ain’t a lot of recoveries
The nCov Coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Wuhan China. Exponentially increasing.
291 cases on Jan 20, 14,562 cases 13 days later. That is what was officially counted.
“Hong Kong University doctor and epidemiologist Gabriel Leung and his team said in a Jan 31 report: ‘In our baseline scenario, we estimated 75,185 infections as of Jan 25.’ And they were reporting on Wuhan alone.”
On January 26, they were officially reporting 2,021 cases, Not the estimated 75,185 cases. Thirty Five times the OFFICIAL numbers. 11 million people. How many people in Wuhan will NOT get the virus? They still have about 10.9 million people that aren’t infected, YET. Except 5 million smart and scred people already bailed out before the Wuhan Quarantine was declared.
Source: — https://www.zerohedge.com/health/virus-party-we-are-now-phase-3
If the spread of this disease is exponential like this in the US, it will be ugly. We are a mobile society, and nCov will spread to every city and town.
Since the coronavirus outbreak West Texas oil prices have dropped almost 20%.
“…..there is a shortage of testing kits and other medical supplies,….”
Both India and China should sell off some of their space programs, nuclear arsenals and land holdings around the world. Then they could afford some face masks instead of continually begging from everyone else.
That chart is pure garbage. You can not compare deaths between diseases. You need to compare deaths as a percentage of cases. I could put regular flu on that graph and put all those diseases to shame.
Pure fear mongering nonsense.
sfr
Seems to me Mr “Sunshine”, that locking down entire cities of 11+Million…is not exactly “fear mongering nonsense”. Stupid..? of course, but totally unsurprising for the Chinese. This thing is well beyond out of hand and sprillaling completely out of their control. Abject naked FEAR my friend is what is driving the ChiComms on this file.
That cases & deaths are under reported..should surprise absolutely No one…even you. Its COMMUNIST CHINA ffs and a country that has operated like the Cosa Nostra for near 75 yrs – Absolutely Rotten to the Core. Said rot is never conducive to managing Bad shit effectively.
According to the CDC an as of Jan 31, there are few spots on the planet unaffected – as of yet. Africa, Middle East and S. America.
It’s just a matter of time.
And we here in Canada are sitting Fkg ducks. Damned near as useless a repsonse as the ChiComms with a Minister of Health who knows SFA about her portfolio, wide open Airports and a PM with his head up his ass, more concerned about Diversity, Anti Chinese Racism and Climate Change.
looks like the live test is progressing nicely.
cynic am I?
not a ‘conspiracy’ theorist, just stinging vitriolic sarcasm aimed at the heart of the most callous malicious
dick tater shit in the world today. they selectively EXECUTE political prisoners to feed the int’l organ transplant industry.
for money. because they can.
and which the TURDoo 2.0 admires. nay, utterly adores. he said so.
It’s all political, no more protesters…. Still my favorite theory. Also, surprised by the lack of hypochondriacs.
The 4 Canadian cases all show minor symptoms. They are at home or in isolation in hospital not because their symptoms are severe but rather for containment purposes. All 4 self reported as they had been in Wuhan which is good of them.
Do not succumb to mass hysteria. Calm the f*** down and evaluate risk from a rational perspective.
“Calm the f*** down and evaluate risk from a rational perspective.”
Yes. This is starting to look as deadly and communicable as the Spanish Flu, so the rational thing to do is contain it with extreme prejudice. It’s not “rational” to let it get out of control before acting. Search up the Spanish Flu.
It looks to me like they were trying to discover how bats managed to live with the coronavirus without it triggering a massive immune response which is what often kills the host.
“It looks to me like they were trying to discover how bats managed to live with the coronavirus without it triggering a massive immune response which is what often kills the host.”
You don’t know that. Pure speculation and fear mongering.