Worldwide Coronavirus Conspiracy To Not DiscloseThe True Death Rate

This simulation took place in Nov 2019. It mostly focuses on the private sector. But in a pandemic of this scale, all that is going to matter is how effective and trustworthy governments are?  

Pandemic simulations: Event 21. These video's set up the Pandemic. Check out the highlights video. Catastrophic economic devastation worldwide lasting for decades. Enough for the nations of the world to lie about!  We primed the pump of the coming panic with the Cruise Ship infections. It set in our minds the mistrust of our officialdoms. This is a high intensity virus media experience and it has painted the outcome of the pandemic. Every time a member of the public think they gotten exposed, or think their family got the exposed, they are going to remember the Cruise Ship experience. The horror stories about this. The Cruise ship experience already set in stone a certain level of economic damage. Sixty five million dead. That is bad enough, but the economic damage of the pandemic is going to be many times worst than the severe illness and fatality cost. The worldwide economic and panic damage as a result of the pandemic  is going to do most the hurting on the planet for a very long time.         

I think there  is a worldwide conspiracy surrounding the fatality rate with coronavirus infections. What do all these nations have in common with this conspiracy...the conspiracy. What strong connections do they need  to implement such a large scale conspiracy. Basically it is money and social order. How would we feel if the fatality rate was 10% to 50%. Basically the stocks markets and economies would collapse or be much lower if the truth came out. There would be hording of necessities on a world wide scale. Many millions of people would have no incomes. The planet would become a war zone before the  actually dearth toll showed up.       

How do you intrepid the surge in new cases and the adjustment of the testing methods other than the  Chinese are trying to dilute the fatality rate.  The fatality rate is all the infected population  divided by the amount of deaths. The death rate is the simplest to falsify. 

Maybe the nations think we got to lie to the public in order to stay strong until the actual death tally becomes apparent to everyone to see. We deny everything until the eventuality comes right upon us. Then our economies would collapse, eventually the virus will burn out. This scenario would lead to a lesser economic and social damage. Then the world would recover.

Maybe everyone is planning on a hail Marry pass with a new vaccine.    

Feb 13 2020 Coronavirus Infections In China Surge As Officials Add New Testing Methods To Tally

China’s Hubei Province reported nearly 15,000 new infections on Thursday, a day after health officials said the number of new patients appeared to be falling.

So now we got thirty people in medical isolation because of the virus. We got thousands in military isolation at four bases in the USA. These guys only got suspicions they are infected and most would not even catch the virus. So you can't use the  people in military facility for the fatality rate. But the thirty in specialized hospital isolation is really important for the fatality rate. Do you think the specialized hospital's real function is to control the disclosure of the deaths and severe illness  in the specialized hospitals. 

Is the USA's coronavirus pandemic plans really: strict containment to the maximum extent possible and the total control with disclosures on the severity of the illness and its death rate.  Of course it is really a national security plant.

I would be really interested on how the initial stage to the pandemic to when  WHO declared a pandemic was modeled?         

ATLANTA (CBS46) – As nations around the world prepare to deal with the new coronavirus from China, a simulation of a pandemic surrounding a coronavirus put together late last year doesn’t instill a lot of confidence.

The simulation, called Event 21, was put together by the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The mythical virus used in the simulation was called CAPS and was a coronavirus.

In the simulation, the virus was resistant to vaccine, deadlier than SARS, and easily transmittable, Yahoo! News reported. The pandemic started with farmers coming down with symptoms and then spreading through crowded and poor neighborhoods as the global community started to fight back. Yahoo! reported the simulation showed after six months, the fake virus had spread around the world and one year later had killed 65 million people.

For comparison, the last major global pandemic was the Spanish flu in 1918. That pandemic claimed 50 million lives including hundreds of thousands in the United States. The CDC said an estimated 500 million people, or one-third of the world’s population at the time became ill with the Spanish flu.

According to Yahoo! News, the simulated pandemic “also triggered a global financial crisis” that saw stock markets collapse and “global domestic product plunged by 11 percent.” Eric Toner, senior scholar at Johns Hopkins’ Center for Health Security told Axios the threats from infectious disease outbreaks and another pandemic are “very real.”

“As we demonstrated in our Event 201 exercise in October, the world is ill-prepared for a severe pandemic. Such a global disease outbreak would not only cause widespread illness and death but there would be severe societal and economic consequences as well,” Toner told Axios.

As of January 22, the World Health Organization said the outbreak of the new Chinese coronavirus “did not constitute a PHEIC (public health emergency of international concern).” The WHO did not human-to-human transmission was occurring and of the confirmed cases, 25 percent are “reported to be severe.”

Health security

Pandemic simulation exercise spotlights massive preparedness gap

Event 201, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, envisions a fast-spreading coronavirus with a devastating impact

By Katie Pearce / Published Nov 6, 2019

Back in 2001, it was a smallpox outbreak, set off by terrorists in U.S. shopping malls. This fall, it was a SARS-like virus, germinating quietly among pig farms in Brazil before spreading to every country in the world.

With each fictional pandemic Johns Hopkins experts have designed, the takeaway lesson is the same: We are nowhere near prepared.

"Once you're in the midst of a severe pandemic, your options are very limited," says Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University. "The greatest good can happen with pre-planning."

"Once you're in the midst of a severe pandemic, your options are very limited. The greatest good can happen with pre-planning."

Eric Toner

Senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

That center's latest pandemic simulation, Event 201, dropped participants right in the midst of an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak that was spreading like wildfire out of South America to wreak worldwide havoc. As fictional newscasters from "GNN" narrated, the immune-resistant virus (nicknamed CAPS) was crippling trade and travel, sending the global economy into freefall. Social media was rampant with rumors and misinformation, governments were collapsing, and citizens were revolting.

For those participating in New York City on Oct. 18—a heavyweight group of policymakers, business leaders, and health officials—Event 201 was a chance to see how much catch-up work is needed to bolster our disaster response systems. Full videos of the discussion are available online.

"It really does shake up assumptions and change thinking about how we can prepare for a global pandemic," says Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security.

Video credit: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Event 201 is the fourth such exercise hosted by the Johns Hopkins center, which works to prepare communities for biological threats, pandemics, and other disasters. The simulations started with 2001's Dark Winter, which gathered national security experts for its simulated smallpox outbreak. The groundbreaking event turned out to be influential in shaping U.S. efforts around pandemic preparedness—particularly due to its timing, right before 9/11.
"Dark Winter resulted in more than a dozen congressional hearings, was briefed to the White House, and ultimately influenced the decision to stockpile enough smallpox vaccine for all Americans," Inglesby says.

That simulation and its two successors—Atlantic Storm, conducted in 2005, and last summer's Clade X—have also demonstrated lasting value as educational and advocacy tools, with reenactments or modified versions taking place in settings including universities, the CDC, and Capitol Hill, according to Inglesby. "These exercises have a long fuse," he says.

For Event 201, hosted in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the experts added a new layer of realism by reaching beyond government and NGOs to leaders in the private sector and business community. Participants included representatives from NBCUniversal, UPS, and Johnson & Johnson.

"Very few people have included the private sector in pandemic preparedness, but that's where most of the resources are," Toner says.

That's particularly true when it comes to vaccine development. The CAPS virus—which Toner describes as a cousin of SARS, "but slightly more transmissible, like the flu, and slightly more lethal"—was presented as resistant to any existing vaccine, as scientists scrambled to come up with one. Citizens, meanwhile, were rioting over scarce access to the next best thing: a fictional antiviral known to treat some CAPS symptoms.

That scenario, Toner says, is utterly realistic. "We don't have a vaccine for SARS, or MERS, or various avian flu viruses that have come up in the past decade," he notes. "That's because vaccine development is slow and difficult if there isn't an immediate market for it."

In the simulation, CAPS resulted in a death toll of 65 million people within 18 months—surpassing the deadliest pandemic in history, the 1918 Spanish flu.

From the discussions Event 201 inspired, the Center for Health Security plans to release a set of formal recommendations within the coming weeks.

Shortly after the simulation, the center released the Global Health Security Index, the first-ever comprehensive ranking of countries on their pandemic preparedness. All in all, the picture was discouraging: The average score, across 195 countries, was 40 out of a possible 100.

"It's our hope," Inglesby says, "that countries will use this to consider where they are strong and where they are weak."

The Great Deception Going On About The Cruise Ship Diamond Princess In Japan

Feb 28

At least 5 Diamond Princess passengers have died

From CNN's Junko Ogura in Tokyo


A woman in her 70s is the fifth passenger on the Diamond Princess cruise ship to die from the novel coronavirus, Japan’s Health Ministry said Friday.

A top Japanese government adviser told CNN this week that the quarantine measures enacted on the Diamond Princess, which was docked off Yokohama for two weeks, may have allowed additional infections to spread among the ship's crew and passengers.

The American-owned cruise ship was put under quarantine by Japan after a coronavirus outbreak was detected on board.

At least 705 people contracted the virus during the quarantine. For a time, the ship had the largest concentration of cases outside of mainland China, where the virus is thought to have originated.

Japan has now confirmed 10 deaths from the coronavirus.

Feb 19

Just awful and unbelievable. We couldn't even imagine this happening anywhere on the planet a month ago: More people from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship tested positive for the novel coronavirus Wednesday, according to the Japanese Health Ministry.

The ministry said 79 new cases were confirmed, adding that 68 of the people were said to be asymptomatic.

The cases were taken from 607 samples on the cruise ship that has been docked in the Japanese port of Yokohama for two weeks.

In Japan, a total of 692 novel coronavirus cases have been confirmed, with 624 from the Diamond Princess and 68 outside the ship.

Feb 18

All the Americans have been flown home yesterday including about 14 infected:

There are 88 more cases of novel coronavirus on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship currently docked in Yokohama, the Japanese health ministry announced on Tuesday.

That brings the total number of cases from the ship to 544, and 606 in Japan as a whole.

Around 3,600 passengers have been quarantined on the vessel in the Japanese port since February 4. 

Feb 16

More cruise ship cases: 70 more coronavirus cases were confirmed on board the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise liner in Yokohama, Japan, bringing total infections to 356. A flight evacuating US passengers is due to depart later Sunday -- those on board will face another quarantine once they land. Feb 15

Diamond Princess cruise ship has 67 more coronavirus cases

USA passengers are heading home. 

Questions raised over protective gear as Japan quarantine officer gets COVID-19

*Why do these highly educated people under estimated the dangerousness with this virus  

According to the health ministry, the officer was dispatched to collect health questionnaires from passengers on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4 and to check their temperature. The officer spent the next two days working at a quarantine station and started to feel ill Sunday. He went to a clinic the following day and tested positive Tuesday.

Everyone is operating on uneducated assumption! 

“Health authorities in China have raised alarm over risks that the novel coronavirus can be transmitted through the eyes,” stressed Masaya Yamato, director of the Infectious Diseases Center at Osaka-based Rinku General Medical Center. “Even if the officer was just collecting survey responses, he should have worn goggles.”

More assumption! 

“Fatigue accumulation causes immune dysfunction,” Iwasaki said. “The worker may have contracted the virus after touching his nose or mouth if he had touched walls or handrails or gloves he used on the ship.”

More self serving assumption.  

Nevertheless, Iwasaki believes the officer’s role in further spreading the virus wasn’t significant.

“The number of viral particles in the human body immediately after transmission is relatively low,” she said.

“Many people visit quarantine stations including those who come to perform export or import inspections or to get a vaccination shot. We need to consider the possibility that the virus may have spread outside the ship and may have been transmitted to the officer’s family members or his co-workers.”

No science, just more assumption.  

Such close contact with people infected with the virus is not envisaged in the job description of a quarantine officer. Considering this point, “this virus must be of a very high infectivity,” she said.

Just how stupid are the Japanese  

Of the 174 infected onboard the Diamond Princess, 20 are crew members. These include restaurant and bar staff, those responsible for cleaning guests’ rooms, and some were sharing rooms with other crew members. Because quarantine inspectors and crew are in constant contact with passengers, there’s a possibility this frequent contact has become one of the infection routes.

“Even if passengers stay in their rooms, every day crew members and quarantine officers are coming in and out. If they are infected, they may spread the virus to the passengers,” stressed another former quarantine station chief. The official has gone through a quarantine drill for handling H1N1 influenza on a large cruise ship with more than 3,000 passengers.

“It’s likely that no one had envisioned a scenario in which one infected person after another would be taken from their rooms and hospitalized,” the official said.

*Forty one more infected on the Diamond Princess plus the guy taking the temperatures of the passenger.  

*According to the World Health Organization you can expect these kinds of medical care with the coronavirus. Remember we are talking about 135 people here. I am sure this medical issue percentages will would hold true for the Diamond Princess and the USA! So why aren't the Japanese not disclosing these outcomes besides the minor sickness with the PR prop.   

Hong Kong epidemiologist says 60% of the world will become infected. 

80% will be a minor affliction- a caveat to this is, a significant amounts of people with minor symptoms later on develop a cytokine storm and die.

We got many new drugs and procedures, thus very sick people with major organ damage will survive. It will be a very long recovery and use tremendous resources. We might not have a very high fatality rate, but those recovering are going to use a lot of hospital resources. 

10-100% will need oxygen and supplemental ventilators" 

20% to 25% of those will need intensive care. 

5% to 10% of those will need mechanical ventilators.

15% will be very sick with pneumonia and need hospitalization 

*As far as the Diamond Princes parked in Japan, one hundred and thirty five passengers have been tested as coronavirus positive. Only one passenger has emerged from the infection and is talking to the public...he says he has always been symptom free? Don't you find that suspicious. Why don't they list out all the passengers who are seriously sick, in the ICU or on the respirators. Why don't the Japanese list out all the medical conditions with all the passengers for the next few weeks. Can you see the implications for Japan right now if we discovered ten passengers on the artificial ventilators and near death. There would be mind-blowing panic on the streets of Japan and severe pressure to get that ship outside Japan if that was so. Everybody lies for there own agenda. If the death rate is 2% to 4%, then you are going to see two to four dead before the virus burns out on the Diamond Princes. This is going to be a excessively shocking event for Japan. It is going to look like everyone was being deceptive. This is the nature of panics in pandemics, for good reasons, we end up not trusting our leaders!!

A dozen or more people in very serious condition from the ship would shock the whole world and maybe move the stock markets... 

      

(Fictional)Ten Confirmed Infected With Coronavirus At Buttigieg's Rally At Convention Center

Well, this is a fictional newspaper heading. Maybe a month away or so. This is when our election drastic changes. Are our politicians planning for this eventuality? That would be the last political rally at any high school auditorium, convention center or any large scale political rally for this political cycle? Which one of our condidates excel in pandemic talk?  

Would voting at all levels be delayed until the virus burns out? 

At this point, our newpapers and media would just be filled with frighting news stories and we certainly would have daily totol on the coronavirus fatalities. I'll bet you the news would be discussing the value of a vast geographic lockdown in the USA!

Coronavirus: Spreads By Aerosol Spray

Is it possible the USA test were false positives? We never really had any infections in the USA yet. It is a brand new test and it is highly eradic. 

But the USA's coronavirus infection experience contradicted this. If it was aerosolized, we have a lot more infections. The only way this Chinese experience works, is if our officials based on national security reasons are telling the infected and medical staffs not to disclose their infection.   

*It can spread by aerosol spray and or remain on surface for up to five days, but to what extent???

Chinese Officials Warn of Aerosol Infection as Coronavirus Continues to Spread
By Eva Fu
February 8, 2020 Updated: February 9, 2020
 
Chinese health officials have identified aerosols as one of the transmission routes for the deadly novel coronavirus that has infected at least tens of thousands and stirred concern worldwide, according to a Shanghai press conference on Saturday.

Aerosol transmission occurs when one inhales very tiny droplets in the air containing the virus. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), measles, and H5N1 avian influenza are capable of spreading through aerosols, which can stay in the air for an extended period of time.

The other two major transmission routes for the virus include direct contact—breathing in larger droplets from an infected person who sneezes and coughs at close range—and contact transmission, meaning a person can be infected by touching objects contaminated with droplets carrying the virus, and then touching the membranes of his mouth, nose, or eyes without washing their hands.

Depending on the environment, current scientific data suggests the coronavirus can survive on surfaces for several hours to up to five days, Jiang Rongmeng, an expert from China’s top health oversight agency, the National Health Commission (NHC), said in a recent press conference.

The findings came after Guangdong authorities discovered nucleic acid of the new virus on the doorknob of a patient’s home less than a week earlier. 

A medical staff member getting lunch boxes for patients through a window in an isolation ward at a hospital in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province, during the virus outbreak in the city, on Jan. 30, 2020. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

A number of Chinese cities, including the outbreak epicenter of Wuhan in Hubei Province; Xi’an in Shaanxi; Nanyang, Xuchang, and Kaifeng in Henan; Xingtai in Hebei; Jiujiang in Guangdong, have deployed mist cannon trucks and street cleaning trucks to spray disinfectants on the streets in an effort to eliminate the virus from public spaces.

Shenzhen and Kunming in southern China were among the latest two to use drones for the disinfectant operation.

Zeng Qun, vice director for the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, asked the public to cancel all social gatherings, open windows to ensure ventilation indoors, and regularly disinfect their homes. Zeng named door handles, chairs, and toilet seat cushions as key areas that are susceptible to contamination and suggested using 75 percent ethanol solution or chlorine solution for sanitizing measures.

In a recent poll on popular messaging platform WeChat, which drew 75,000 participants, around 62 percent of them indicated that they have not taken an elevator for more than a week, worrying that they could contract the virus by contacting the doorknob. For those who still rode the elevator, many chose to bring a pen, a toothpick, or a napkin, or wear gloves to avoid any direct contact.

Officials have also cautioned the family members of those infected to wear masks and keep a distance of at least one meter (3.2 ft) as well as clean their hands immediately after touching anything exposed to the patient.

In a same-day news conference, China’s NHC announced that the virus will have a temporary name called novel coronavirus pneumonia, or NCP for short.

It remains uncertain whether the virus can spread through fecal contamination, a concern that arose after the feces of the first U.S. coronavirus patient tested positive to the virus.

Feng Luzhao, an infectious disease researcher with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said at the conference that they have also identified similar cases in several regions, which raised the question of whether the pathogens can spread through tainted food and water.

According to the NHC, the telltale signs for infection include fever, fatigue, dry coughs, and breathing difficulties, which can lead to pneumonia, kidney failure, and death.

However, some patients have reported atypical symptoms such as diarrhea, headaches, palpitations, chest pains, eye inflammations, and muscle soreness.

Waiting For a Violent Takeover On A Coronavirus Infected Cruise Ship

*Japanese Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said an additional 40 virus cases had been confirmed on board the Diamond Princess as of Wednesday, bringing the total number on board to 175>
*It is getting ready to explode? 

Several members of the Diamond Princess crew have appealed for help from the Indian government, and alleged that they are at risk of infection by not being segregated.

So far at least 135 people (including five crew members) have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus on board the vessel, amid signs of a full blown outbreak -- one of the largest outside of mainland China.

*Or a group rushes the disembark gangway. Are the police or military going to shoot them as they escape the ship. Every time a new trench of testies come positive they reset the release of the ship and passengers for another two weeks. This six yesterday was the third set of passengers tested.     

Japan confirms six more cases from quarantined cruise ship as coronavirus deaths surpasses SARS' toll

Reuters, Kyodo, Staff Report

Feb 9, 2020 

SHANGHAI/BEIJING/TOKYO – China raised the death toll from the coronavirus epidemic to 811 on Sunday, passing the number killed globally by the SARS epidemic from 2002 to 2003 and raising anxiety among people preparing to return to work after an extended Lunar New Year break.

In Japan, meanwhile, six more people on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama have tested positive, a government source said Sunday, raising the total on the vessel to 70.

In addition, about 100 people are reportedly complaining about physical problems, including fever.

Medical institutions have tested 336 of the ship’s 3,700 passengers.

As of Sunday evening, total confirmed cases in Japan stood at 96, including the 70 on the Diamond Princess.

The Chinese Electrical System: The Battle Between Over Supply and Blackouts.

During the last few weeks in China, it must have been a  historic emergency reduction with grid loads caused by the lockdowns and lost of businesses. Generally large scale blackouts are caused by a drastic and unexspected lost of grid loads. The grid electric frequency jumps up tripping many power plants in a attempt to protect components in plant. Then the grid collapses. Hopefully this allows the electrcity to be restored quickly.  So far you got to give the Chinese great credit for not collapsing the grid on over frequency.

Is blackouts on the way? How are you at  maintaining the employees who run the plants and grids during pandemic conditions?  These massively complex systems that are maintained by highly educated and skilled people. They are irreplacable. This already got to be consuming lots of employees in many ways. Many are now sick, dead, terrified and everyone is severely worried about their  families?

What is the long term strategy with maintaining this national security employee base?

US hospital electric codes dictates they have emergency power supplies such as diesel generators. Does China have the same codes? What if a grossly over loaded hospital loses their electricity? Do they have backup power supplied? Does the grid authorities have a strategy to keep the electricity suppied to the hospitals in a grid emergency. A priorization strategy?  There are  a lots of societal vital needs that need electricity like everything gasoline and diesel especially at the gas station level.  Society would collapse if there were no electricity.

Maybe China needs a boat load of big diesel generator?

Coronavirus: Proof That CNN and Officialdom Is Crazy

Update Feb *

*'There's no doubt': Top US infectious disease doctor says Wuhan coronavirus can spread even when people have no symptoms 

Update

Red(Team Analysis Team 


So this I believe is the battle between black and white thinkers and nuanced thinker. Does the main stream media cater to the black and white thinkers or nuanced thinker. Circulation, viewership and profitability informs me they most cater to the black and white thinker. 

I think a society has a inherent pathogen dangerousness number based on their medical infrastructures and educational base. A new virus hits them, they all have individual characteristic...so there is the initial virus dangerousness. Are you resilient or brittle? As the virus hits a society, eventually it starts to degrade the medical system and their infrastructure. As the situation get worst, the virus dangerousness increases and more people get sicker and sicker, with an increasing death rate. The end stage is when medical system collapses, mass panic is a part of this ...with extraordinarily virus dangerousness numbers. Eventually everyone get infected and virus just burns out. It is obvious panic and supply system issues degrades the medical system. Does a dictatorial or democratic system favor survival. I think is takes a delicate mix of both political systems to survive.   

***So what about this is science. Fixating on one patient and in a totalitarian country is crazy. You need a group of patients infected by the virus before symptoms to get a handle on this. 

It is interesting, why is the main stream media fixated on disproving this? 

Report that said Wuhan coronavirus can spread before symptoms was flawed

By Jamie Gumbrecht, Madeline Holcombe, Nadia Kounang and Michael Nedelman, CNN

Updated 9:57 AM ET, Wed February 5, 2020 

CNN)A report that suggested Wuhan coronavirus could spread before the onset of symptoms was flawed, according to public health experts.

Chinese officials had previously said that patients can be infectious even if they are not presenting symptoms. An early study on asymptomatic transmission of the virus published last week in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine and appeared to confirm Chinese health officials' assessment.

But public health officials now say the report may be flawed. 

Interviews with the Chinese patient at the center of the case revealed she may have actually had mild, nonspecific symptoms.

There have been more than 20,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in China, with a death toll of 425. The disease has spread internationally, infecting 170 people in more than 20 countries. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.

Patient not initially interviewed

The original report said a Shanghai resident came to Germany on a business trip and did not exhibit symptoms of illness while she interacted with several German colleagues. On her return flight to China, she became ill and later tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

After her visit, four individuals at the company -- two of whom had direct interactions with their Chinese colleague -- tested positive for the virus.

In an email to CNN on Tuesday, German public health officials said the report was incorrect.

"In contrast to first reports according to which the index case (a Chinese traveling in Germany) seemed to have been asymptomatic during the time of likely transmission here, recent interviews by the Bavarian health authorities and the Robert Koch Institute in Chinese language revealed that she might have had mild unspecific symptoms including back pain and also took antipyretic medication." 

One of the paper's authors previously told CNN they relied on interviews with the German patients.

"This was likely an error of being inadequately careful by the authors, an error that is understandable in a crisis situation, but is still problematic," said Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Lipsitch was not involved with the NEJM study.

"Data has circulated that the new coronavirus would be infected throughout the incubation period," The Public Health Agency of Sweden posted on its website. "This information has not been presented in a way that provides scientifically substantiated facts. Rather, it has emerged that the data is unfortunately based on misconceptions. We believe that it is impossible for the new corona virus to infect throughout the incubation period ... This applies,

This is just a testimonial. Where is the Swedish proof and report on this. Have  they even had one case. We are up the frinkin river if our main stream media reports like this. 

among other things, to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that has subsequently proven to contain major flaws and errors."

Research already cited

Before German public health officials addressed the report's flaw, US health officials and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website had cited the research.

"It was not clear whether an asymptomatic person could transmit it to someone while they were asymptomatic. Now we know from a recent report from Germany that that is absolutely the case," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a news conference of the President's Coronavirus Task Force on Friday.

Well, maybe this is CNN's strategy of prying this kind of information from our health agency.   

CNN reached out to the New England Journal of Medicine. Representatives from the medical journal said it is working on a response, "but we're not yet in a position to make a statement."CNN also reached out to Fauci and the CDC and has not yet received a response.

The World Health Organization said in a weekend report that "the main driver of transmission ... is symptomatic cases." The organization said it's "aware of possible transmission" from asymptomatic individuals in a few instances but said that this may be rare and not a major player in the spread of the virus.