Posted on 01/26/2020 12:25:43 AM PST by Zhang Fei
Hundreds of patients in Wuhan who have yet to be confirmed as carrying the new strain of coronavirus are becoming increasingly desperate as the city struggles to cope with the numbers reporting pneumonia symptoms.
One 36-year-old, speaking by phone outside a major hospital in the city, said she had spent the past week taking her sick husband from hospital to hospital in a vain attempt to get him tested for the virus, which has already killed 41 people and infected hundreds more.
“I have nothing. No protective clothing, only a raincoat, and I am standing outside the hospital in the rain,” said the woman, who gave her name as Xiaoxi.
“I am desperate, I have lost count of time and days. I don’t know if we will both live to see the new year.”
She said that Lunar New Year’s eve felt like “doomsday” as there was nowhere for her and her sick husband to go in the locked-down city.
A video shared by Xiaoxi appeared to show the hallway to the fever ward of the hospital packed with anxious patients seeking attention from medical staff.
The footage also showed medical staff in protective clothing and what Xiaoxi said were the bodies of patients who had died in the hospital and been left in the corridor wrapped in linen.
While the government has offered to pay for all expenses of patients confirmed to have the virus, those who have not yet received a positive test have been left to pay their own medical bills.
“I pay anything from hundreds to about 1,000 yuan [US$144] a day for medicines. There are many people like us. I saw many people who couldn’t afford the bill and just gave up coming and went home,” Xiaoxi said.
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Pneumonia is going to take a lot of lives there
1,000 cases in a country the size of China are producing scenes of desperation?
Moose hockey.
How many Chinese came back to the USA in January to study at private schools and universities?
[1,000 cases in a country the size of China are producing scenes of desperation?
Moose hockey.]
First case in Toronto, Canada. Person visited Wuhan. Why planes haven’t been stopped from coming in is a mystery to me.
[1,000 cases in a country the size of China are producing scenes of desperation?
Moose hockey.]
It’s not flu.
Nature, or man-made for asymmetric biological warfare?
Probably 4-10K.
I just saw on a show tonite about swarms of locusts devouring million$ of crops in Kenya.
May not be now. I think I may have been watching the science channel.
But fairly recent I think.
It had a 63% survival rate.
America made China. The world sucks and thrives off of China products. This virus may kill millions or more but atleast people will die next or on a Chicom product that they could not live without!
[1,000 cases in a country the size of China are producing scenes of desperation?
Moose hockey.]
Things are coming, my brother
killed 41 people and infected hundreds more.
You will notice that the official numbers, despite the high contagion rate, have remained steady ...
Locust issue in Kenya...noted as a big issue over the past month. Considered the worst locust appearance of the past seventy years. Most regional agricultural experts say a food crisis is brewing in the country, and will require some type of emergency assistance. But a lot of this is simply rainfall change....with a shift of wind and rain from Malaysia region....going west to the area of Kenya.
Can you understand the language in this video? The woman in bio-gear said that over 90,000 were infected according to the subtitles.
https://twitter.com/Terrence_STR/status/1221100970521829377?s=20
The South China Morning Post is doing yeoman’s work
have lost count of how many on Fr
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