Is Beijing suppressing the true scale of infections? Nurse treating coronavirus sufferers in China claims 90,000 people have already been infected

Daily Mail ^ | Published: 17:13 EST, 25 January 2020 | Updated: 22:59 EST, 25 January 2020 | Jonathan Bucks For The Mail On Sunday and Megan Sheets and Ryan Fahey and Ariel Zilber

[PIF]

Again as reported by the Chinese Government which is in Panic Mode and who have no interest in releasing accurate figures on this scale or any other for that matter. Believe them and there is a good possibility that you will be making a large purchase of a structure over the Hudson ...

[AdmSmith]

Niman has been working with virus and evolution of them for decades. I trust his opinion more than a random person on Internet, including Daily Mail ;-)

[grey_whiskers]

2% was the mortality rate for the infamous Spanish Flu of 1918, which killed..guesses vary, but let's say 20 million dead worldwide.

It killed by cytokine storm: people would go to sleep healthy and never wake up.

That virus had R0 (transmissibillity) of 1.8.

Low estimates for this are 2.5 (The Lancet).

[PIF]

Again he knows nothing more than we do regardless of his ‘expertise’ he is not in China and is not privy to CCP health data and other closely held records.

Trust is earned and unless he shares the inside data on the situation in China you claim for him, either he’s is a fraud or your trust is misplaced, else he’s just some guy who knows something about diseases.

[SunkenCiv]

90,000 dead seems like kind of a lot, really. Thanks Zhang Fei.

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[Black Agnes]

WHO says 4% mortality.

Normal flu is 0.07% mortality.

[SauronOfMordor]

But it fits with a quarantine on fifty million people. 50 dead does not.

You are correct. 50 dead would not, COULD not, have led to that level of quarantine and economic disruption.

[SauronOfMordor]

In an epidemic, treatment is only possible while the number of infected is low enough that they haven’t yet overloaded the medical system.

Once the number of seriously ill exceeds the system capacity, things go south quickly.

[AdmSmith]

That is correct.

[GOPJ]

‘I would like to say that everyone who is currently watching this video should not go outside. Don’t party. Do not eat out. Once a year, we celebrate Chinese New Year. If you are safe now, you will be able to meet your family again...

90,000 DEAD OMG If true - even if half that number we've got a problem... Can a person catch this disease more than once? Like a common cold? Our intelligence thugs must know something...

[nuconvert]

In total, the CDC estimates that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season, 647,000 people were hospitalized and 61,200 died

.145% approximately (0.07% would be 30,100)