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 How China dropped the ball on Covid-19

Sechel

In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations.

President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20.
But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data.

But the six-day delay by China’s leaders in Beijing came on top of almost two weeks during which the national Center for Disease Control did not register any cases from local officials, internal bulletins obtained by the AP confirm.
Yet during that time, from Jan. 5 to Jan. 17, hundreds of patients were appearing in hospitals..

 not just in Wuhan..

but across the country.

Sechel

Republicans are ratcheting up efforts to paint China as the villain in the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to shift blame as President Donald Trump faces increased criticism of his handling of a crisis that has shuttered the U.S. economy.

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 He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

“Is this true?!” 

Dr. Kadlec wrote back to the researcher..

  “If so we have a huge hole on our screening and quarantine effort,”..

Her response was blunt: 

“People are carrying the virus everywhere.”

The following day, Dr. Kadlec and the others decided to present Mr. Trump with a plan titled “Four Steps to Mitigation,” telling the president that they needed to begin preparing Americans for a step rarely taken in United States history.

But over the next several days..

a presidential blowup and internal turf fights would sidetrack such a move..

The focus would shift to messaging and confident predictions of success..

rather than publicly calling..

for a shift to mitigation.

These final days of February..

perhaps more than any other moment during his tenure in the White House..

illustrated Mr. Trump’s inability or unwillingness..

to absorb warnings coming at him. 

He instead reverted to his traditional political playbook..

in the midst of a public health calamity..

squandering vital time as the coronavirus..

 spread silently across the country.

Sechel

“Despite Mr. Trump’s denial weeks later, he was told at the time about a Jan. 29 memo produced by his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, laying out in striking detail the potential risks of a coronavirus pandemic: as many as half a million deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses.”

  Mortality rates in hospitalized patients

njbr

The average age of a patient hospitalized with covid-19, the company said, is 59.6 years old. Mortality rises sharply with age: It is just 1 percent for hospitalized patients under the age of 20, 4 percent for ages 20 to 44, 9 percent for 45 to 54, 13 percent for 55 to 64, 23 percent for 65 to 74, 31 percent for 75 to 84, and 40 percent for 85 and up.