Why Nations Are All Lying About The Extent And Depth Of Coronavirus

You know, the era of the big nations competitions and the pseudo-wars by them all? Remember the crisis with the USA over us assassinating one of their high generals and Iran they getting caught lying to their people about shooting down one of their 

Trump accuses ‘MSDNC’ and CNN of ‘doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible;’ lashes out at Democrats

President Trump on Wednesday attacked CNN and “MSDNC (Comcast)” — a reference to MSNBC — for “doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible.” (He misspelled coronavirus in his tweet.)

“Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape!,” Trump added.

In a separate tweet, he said he would be holding a news conference at the White House at 6 p.m. Wednesday, alongside representatives for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On Tuesday, Trump had defended his administration’s response to the coronavirus epidemic against a flurry of criticism from Democratic presidential candidates, who said in Tuesday night’s primary debate that he wasn’t doing enough to address the deadly outbreak.

“CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus, including the very early closing of our borders to certain areas of the world,” Trump tweeted on Tuesday.

“No matter how well we do, however, the Democrats talking point is that we are doing badly,” he wrote. “If the virus disappeared tomorrow, they would say we did a really poor, and even incompetent, job. Not fair, but it is what it is.”

The president’s tweets came as Democrats on the debate stage in South Carolina blasted the way the administration has handled the public health crisis.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ridiculed Trump’s recent unfounded assertion that the outbreak could “miraculously” subside by April — a claim that health experts say is dubious at best.

On Tuesday, Trump also downplayed the economic impact of the outbreak in the United States, even as analysts voiced concerns.

commercial planes? We are having a a military build up in the Mideast in the last 6 months as to counter their possible attack on the USA. It must be making Iran very nervous.  How is the Iran

More than 800,000 South Koreans call for President Moon to be impeached over virus

TOKYO — More than 800,000 South Koreans have signed a petition calling for President Moon Jae-in to be impeached over his handling of the coronavirus epidemic, arguing that he was more worried about currying favor with the Chinese government than curbing the spread of the disease.

Moon has been widely criticized by his conservative opponents for failing to suspend travel from China, with restrictions applying only to people from the worst-affected province of Hubei and its capital, Wuhan.

“The most important thing for the president of the Republic of Korea is protecting its own people. Had he thought of his fellow Koreans, he should have banned entry of visitors from all parts of China,” the petition says.

The petition also criticizes Moon for sending 3 million face masks to China, while failing to address a spike in the price of masks in his own country.

“Seeing Moon Jae-in’s response to the new coronavirus, I feel that he is more of a president for China than Korea,” the petition says. “We cannot just watch this catastrophe any more.”

South Koreans are fond of petitions and demonstrations, but with legislative elections in April, this could mark the first time that the international coronavirus epidemic becomes an active election issue.

South Korea has reported 1,146 coronavirus cases and 12 deaths, the second-highest national tally after China.

The presidential Blue House has to respond to any petition that garners more than 200,000 signatures in a month.

coronavirus situation going to interact with the USA crisis? But the theme here is why are all nations lying about the coronavirus? They say Trump is terrified he is going to lose the election over coronavirus and a USA stock market collapse:   

Rouhani “The point I want to emphasize is that [the] coronavirus should not become a weapon at the hand of our enemies.."

Iran confirms 19th death, official tells state television

Nineteen people have died in Iran from the novel coronavirus outbreak, Iranian Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur told state television on Wednesday.

Iran has the highest number of deaths from the coronavirus outbreak outside China. Jahanpur said the number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 139.
Tehran Municipality workers clean a metro train to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)

Jahanpur said Iranians should cancel nonessential travel and urged people to avoid Gilan and Qom, areas of the country with lots of confirmed coronavirus cases.

The large number of novel coronavirus infections in Iran has stretched the country’s health system, already under pressure from international isolation caused by punishing U.S. sanctions.

Speaking on Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the country would bring the outbreak under control within weeks.

Rouhani emphasized that more common illnesses such as influenza kill people every year, adding that deaths from the coronavirus “are no more than influenza.”

“The point I want to emphasize is that [the] coronavirus should not become a weapon at the hand of our enemies,” Rouhani told a cabinet session, according to a transcript on his website.

A faulty CDC coronavirus test delays monitoring of disease’s spread

A faulty CDC coronavirus test delays monitoring of disease’s spread

Problems with a government-created coronavirus test has limited the U.S. capacity to rapidly increase testing, just as the outbreak has entered a worrisome new phase in countries around the world.

While South Korea has run more than 35,000 coronavirus tests, the U.S. has tested only 426 people for the virus, not including people who returned on evacuation flights. Only a handful of state laboratories can currently run tests outside of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta because the CDC kits sent out nationwide a week and a half ago included a faulty component.

Currently, U.S. guidelines recommend testing for a very narrow group of people - those who display respiratory symptoms and have recently traveled to China or had close contact with an infected person.

But many public health experts believe that in light of evidence the disease can take root and spread in Singapore, South Korea, Iran, and Italy, it's time to broaden testing in the United States. The small number of U.S. cases thus far may be a reflection of limited testing, not of the virus' spread. Infectious disease experts fear that aside from the 14 cases picked up by public health surveillance, there may be other people, undetected, mixed in with colds and flu. What scares them the most is that the virus is beginning to spread locally in countries outside China, but no one knows if that's the case here, because they aren't checking.

Who Does WHO (World Health Organization) Work For

Is there a requirement the WHO takes only the betterment of the world into consideration with their decision and judgements?  I mean, will a regulatory overseer come in and put the WHO officials in jail if they cater to the nation's political leaderships instead "doing good" for the whole world?Remember when Trump threatened to not fund the WHO for not following his agenda. So WHO is set up to cater to their members, not necessarily their populations  Especially for the great powers who fund most of the WHO. You see how important china is to the WHO?  

First City In USA Declares a Coronavirus State of Emergency

San Francisco declares local emergency amid coronavirus outbreak

AN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a local emergency Tuesday amid the global coronavirus outbreak.

This declaration will help the city get resources they need to respond to an outbreak.

“We need to allocate more resources to make sure that we are prepared,” Breed said in a news conference Tuesday afternoon. “This declaration is all about preparedness.”

Three people have been treated for the coronavirus in the city. None of the patients are San Francisco residents.

Two patients from San Benito County were hospitalized in San Francisco. They have since been discharged in good health and are no longer in the city.

Another patient who tested positive for the virus was brought to the city from Travis Air Force Base, where the patient was quarantined after leaving a cruise ship.

Santa Clara County, where there are two confirmed coronavirus cases, has also declared a local emergency due to the outbreak.

“CDC On Coronavirus In USA: Disruption To Everyday life might be severe

CDC expects ‘community spread’ of coronavirus, as top official warns disruptions could be ‘severe’

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday warned that it expects the novel coronavirus that has sparked outbreaks around the world to begin spreading at a community level in the United States, as a top official said that disruptions to daily life could be “severe.”

“As we’ve seen from recent countries with community spread, when it has hit those countries, it has moved quite rapidly. We want to make sure the American public is prepared,” Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters.

“As more and more countries experience community spread, successful containment at our borders becomes harder and harder,” she said.

There have been 14 cases of the virus diagnosed in the U.S., all in people who traveled recently to China or their close contacts. Another 39 U.S. residents have been infected in other parts of the world before being repatriated and quarantined. But CDC officials say the country could soon see more cases as the virus starts to spread through communities in areas outside China, including Iran, South Korea, and Italy.

The CDC urged American businesses and families to start preparing for the possibility of a bigger outbreak. Messonnier said that parents should ask their children’s schools about plans for closures. Businesses should consider whether they can offer telecommuting options to their employees, while hospitals might need to look into expanding telehealth services, she said.

“Disruption to everyday life might be severe,” Messonnier said, adding that she talked to her children about the issue Tuesday morning. “While I didn’t think they were at risk right now, we as a family ought to be preparing for significant disruption to our lives.”

The CDC’s messaging seemed to be at odds with the position of the World Health Organization, which reiterated Tuesday that countries could stop transmission chains if they acted swiftly and aggressively.

A new type of coronavirus is responsible for the outbreak of respiratory illnesses that began in Wuhan, China in December 2019. While experts are still unclear how exactly these viruses are transmitted, coronaviruses such as those that caused the SARS and MERS outbreaks in years past offer clues. Hyacinth Empinado and Alex Hogan/STAT

Bruce Aylward, a senior WHO official who led a recent international mission to China to see how that country had dealt with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, said the lesson from China was that the impact of the new virus can be dramatically curtailed. But countries have to be prepared to wage a full-on assault, he insisted.

“Think it’s going to be there tomorrow,” Aylward said during a briefing for journalists at WHO headquarters in Geneva. “The thing you’ve got to think is: If it hits us, we’re going to stop it. You have to think that way. I keep hearing, ‘Oh, if it hits us we just have to accept it and it’s going to spread.’ Why? You’ve lost before you’ve started.”

Messonnier said the CDC is evaluating data on measures that could be used to stem the spread of the virus, including school closures and other social distancing strategies, voluntary home quarantines, and surface cleaning methods. The CDC is using data from past flu outbreaks to study those strategies, but will tailor its recommendations for the new virus.

Messonnier said the CDC is also in conversation about whether to change the case definition that triggers a sick patient to be tested for the virus. Currently, health officials recommend testing only for people who have respiratory symptoms and have recently traveled to China, or those who have been in close contact with someone who was infected. But as community spread picks up in other countries, the case definition could change.

Malicious Big Powers Competition In the Era of Coronavirus

Why wouldn't a big power seed coronavirus into our population? We screwed up containment, now the virus got us shutting down our economy. It has got us on our knees. So in order to maintain our relative big power status and reputation, we got to intentionally weaken our competitor who maintained coronavirus containment by seeding their population with coronavirus. 

What country is going to end up getting strengthened by coronavirus and what once a great country is going to permanently weakened by coronavirus.     

Evidence The Chinese Coronavirus Fatality Rate Is Being Gamed.

The reason for this is the virus is so infectious and deadly it would immediately crater the world 's economy and stock market. I am betting the coronavirus fatality rate is between 25% and 50%. I would say there are two panic stages. These panic stages just might be more damaging than the virus.

Stage one panic: When the country or world first appreciates the dangerousness of a particular virus. Everyone would reorganize their lives and money for a particularly dangerous virus. Panic would set in, vast shortages of basic commodities and much business failures. The dropping dead bodies right in front of your eyes might be many months ahead.  

Stage two panic: The dead bodies would tremendously increase, everyone would be terrified by the possibility of their own death or the sickness and death of their loves one. This panic would be primordial. This panic has the highest probability of societal destabilization.  

These two doctors worked at a nearby hospital in Wuhan. They died helping these very sick people. I wonder how many medical buddies they seen die in recent  days. What were their ages? The suspicion is why are these doctors so young. The whole world thinks the majority of the dead are  the old agers such as in 80s and 90s years old.

These rock star coronavirus doctors were  highly popular. They would be suspicious if they were just disappeared. So the Chinese authorities would want to release the deaths of these doctors and their infection for their own protection. The authorities are desperate to maintain their public credibility.

This is my evidence the coronavirus is killing a lot of young and middle age people. The majority of the dead people killed by the virus are rather no name people and the elderly. Nobody would care if the dead weren't added or taken off the list. This is how the whole system is artificially keeping the fatality rate low. They just aren't adding by the correct percentage the young or middle age people to the dead person list.  

 
Dr. Huang Wenjun 42 years old

Dr Xia Sisi 29

Military Troops Heading To The Mexican Boarder to Combat Cororavirus

This country is a prime example of a poor and poorly organized country. The drug cartels aren't going to help their country. As a result of the infections with little resources,  the fatality rate and serous illness are just going to explode. The hospitals are going to instantly fill up and become overwhelmed. All they will have left is the USA to help them? What about the rest of south America? 

This is the American way. Build a set of military coronavirus medical installation along the boarder. We treat all these Mexicans very good, treat, house and feed them until they are cured. Then they go back to Mexico. 

We are sitting here in la-la land in the USA. Our world and nation is radically change in 6 months because of coronavirus.  

Will HIPAA Impair Our Ability To Fight Coronavirus?

This is much like military secrecy. This kind of secrecy generally is to protect our troops and technology. Todays military secrecy is generally about protecting the politicians and brass's incompetence and mistakes.  National cohesiveness and trust in government is our highest national security even beyond the military. Now if you clamp down on  secrecy to protect the brass and policians you just might demoralize the country. 

If in explaining massive contagion, HIPPAA seems to be the go-too tool to not explain what is going on in a contagion...then the government will lose trust in the eyes of the public. 

Believe me at this point, we need the politicians and our medical officials to always tell us the truth, even the  horrible truths, much more than we need a coronavirus vaccine.    

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA or the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act^[1][2]) was enacted by the 104th United States Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. It was created primarily to modernize the flow of healthcare information, stipulate how Personally Identifiable Information maintained by the healthcare and healthcare insurance industries should be protected from fraud and theft, and address limitations on healthcare insurance coverage.^[3]

The act consists of five titles. Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs.^[4] Title II of HIPAA, known as the Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the establishment of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers.^[5] Title III sets guidelines for pre-tax medical spending accounts, Title IV sets guidelines for group health plans, and Title V governs company-owned life insurance policies.

Cities and firms begin disclosing patients' workplaces as Japan records third Diamond Princess death

Kyodo, Staff Report

Feb 23, 2020

Japan on Sunday recorded the third death of a Japanese national who had been on the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship as infections linked to the virus continued to rise nationwide.

Some municipalities and companies have also started disclosing information about where infected people work.

The health ministry said Sunday a man in his 80s who had been on board the cruise ship had died of pneumonia. However, the ministry did not say whether the man was infected with the COVID-19 virus nor whether he was a passenger or crew member because it had not obtained consent from the deceased’s family....

Coronavirus To Cause Drug And Medical Device Shortage In USA

Well, now you are going to have to think about if China locks down an area around a drug plant and the worker can't get to the plant.

Fox news: Experts are warning America has become too dependent on China for its medicine -- everything from painkillers, to antibiotics, and even aspirin can all be sourced back to a country the Department of Defense considers an adversary.

The Food and Drug Administration estimates that at least 80 percent of the active ingredients found in all of America's medicines come from abroad – primarily China.

"Imagine if China turned off that spigot," said Rosemary Gibson, author of "China RX: The Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine." "China's aim is to become the global pharmacy to the world -- it says that. It wants to disrupt, to dominate, and displace American and other Western companies."

In 2015, China unveiled "Made in China 2025," a national plan to make it the world's leader in 10 high-tech manufacturing sectors, including bio-medicine, by 2025.

The new national security warning comes as China is threatening to weaponize its dominance in mining rare earth minerals against the United States, in an escalation of the ongoing trade war.

How many deaths will this cause if this Pandemic deepens in China and/or throughout the world? 

Can you even imagine how high they will increase their prices!     

FDA: China's coronavirus might disrupt 'critical medical products' including drugs and devices

Ken Alltucker Jayne O'Donnell

USA TODAY

The Food and Drug Administration has pulled inspectors from China amid the rapidly-spreading coronavirus and has warned Americans might face shortages of “critical medical products” if the outbreak persists.

The federal agency halted inspections of drug and device factories due to the State Department warning against travel to China. The FDA has faced Congressional scrutiny for its oversight of overseas factories following high-profile recalls of blood pressure-lowering medications and reports revealing fewer overseas inspections in recent years.

Although the coronavirus outbreak seems to put the federal agency behind schedule on routine safety and quality checks of drug and device factories, Commissioner Stephen Hahn said the agency can still monitor China-made products through testing, records requests and "import bans" that forbid products from entering the U.S.

“The robust and multi-layered compliance process at the FDA is helping to protect American patients and consumers even though we are not able to conduct inspections in China at this time,” Hahn said in a statement.

The FDA’s database of inspections, current as of Feb. 7, shows the agency has not listed any inspections of a Chinese factory since last December. Inspections in China typically slow down in January around the time of Chinese New Year, but the absence of on-site safety and quality checks will now extend into March.

The FDA inspects when an overseas factory seeks approval to supply drugs or drug ingredients for the American market. Factories are also subject to periodic “surveillance” inspections to gauge whether they are meeting quality standards. When the agency becomes aware of a possible safety problem with a drug or manufacturing process the FDA conducts “for cause” inspections.

Hahn said all inspections scheduled for February were postponed or the agency used "other information to inform decisions allowing the products to enter our U.S. market." He said 90% of those inspections were routine surveillance. The agency also delayed this month's scheduled for-cause inspections after analyzing information for each factory in question. Most surveillance inspections scheduled for March at drug and medical device factories already have been postponed, he said. The agency did not address inspections in January. 

We will continue to closely monitor the situation in China so that as the situation improves, we will be prepared to resume routine inspections,” he said.

The FDA has faced questions from lawmakers about how the coronavirus outbreak has affected the agency’s oversight of drug and device factories. And last December, before the outbreak was known, a Government Accountability Office report revealed the number of inspections at overseas factories dropped 10% from 2016 to 2018 and found "persistent challenges" such as not hiring and retaining enough inspectors. 

Michael Carome is director of Public Citizen's health research group and an expert on drug safety and FDA oversight.

"The fact that the FDA has suspended inspections is worrisome," Carome said. "We start from a baseline position of they are not doing enough inspections in China, where the active ingredients for a lot of our drugs are made. Any further delay or suspension in their inspections makes the problem worse."

Carome said a short suspension probably won't make a huge difference. However, if the outbreak delays inspections for several weeks or months "that’s going to impact drug safety," he said.

Another potential problem: The U.S. might need to navigate drug or medical product shortages if the coronavirus outbreak continues to snarl production in China, a pivotal supplier for American consumers, doctors and hospitals.

Hahn said the agency is "keenly aware" the coronavirus outbreak "will likely impact the medical product supply chain, including potential disruptions to supply or shortages of critical medical products in the U.S."

The agency has reached out to manufacturers and shifted resources to identify potential medical product shortages. He said the agency is tracking reports of increased orders of medical devices such as masks, gloves, respirators and surgical gowns.

Howard Sklamberg, a former FDA deputy commissioner overseeing foreign inspections during the Obama administration, said the agency tries to take action to avert drug and medical device shortages. Some strategies might include finding other suppliers, possibly in another country, or accelerating approval of a drug from another manufacturer awaiting FDA review.

Some drug or device supply disruptions can be predicted, such as when a company alerts the FDA of plans to discontinue a drug or suspend production due to a manufacturing problem. Other times, the change can be sudden. In 2017, Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico and shut down production at drug factories that made critical supplies such as saline solution.

“This type of thing happens more frequently than one might think,” Sklamberg said of drug shortages. “It happens when there is a weather problem. Oil spills. Or there could be a situation like a civil war," which can disrupt production or make it impossible for inspectors to access a factory.

Even if inspectors are shut out of routine surveillance or “for-cause” checks, the FDA has other options to protect consumers from receiving tainted products. The agency can halt overseas shipments of problem drugs, devices or food through “import alerts” coordinated with customs and border enforcement officials.

Whether the coronavirus disrupts drug supplies “largely depends on how long the emergency continues and how broad the geographic area is,” said Sklamberg, now a partner in the law firm Akin Gump.  

“The supply chain and the level of inventory in the US already varies a lot by drug. It’s hard to make an overall statement, other than it depends on how long this goes on.”

Tom Cosgrove, a former director of FDA’s office of manufacturing quality, said the FDA's inspection system is very flexible. 

“The issue is, how will the FDA inspection regime fare if they can’t access China?" said Cosgrove, now a partner in the law firm Covington & Burling.  

If the quarantine succeeds and inspections resume “within a couple of months, I don’t think there will be a major impact on the FDA. But if it’s more than a couple months, the FDA could fall behind on its inspection program and it would take a long time to catch up."