[nuconvert]

My “Why” had more to do with the timing. It says, “The past few weeks”. Why did they wait so long to leave China? And if it was 3-4 wks ago, why are they in self quarantine?

[Zhang Fei]

[My “Why” had more to do with the timing. It says, “The past few weeks”. Why did they wait so long to leave China? And if it was 3-4 wks ago, why are they in self quarantine?]

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It may have seemed like a long time, but the Wuhan quarantine began only 4 weeks ago. Even after the quarantine began, it wasn’t clear that people outside of Wuhan had anything to worry about.

Even today, we’re not exactly sure we have anything to worry about. People are panicked because they’re afraid the Chinese government is lying big time about mortality and infection rates. The thinking is that there must be some nefarious reason why they’re not letting foreign researchers in. Maybe we need to add zeroes to the end of the death or infected numbers.