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China is furious that environmental readings have exposed lies around COVID-19 deaths. The data collected shows a clear mismatch from the information released by the Chinese government about how many people died and at what time. This is a very sensitive subject with China engaging in a cold trade war with Australia over the origins of COVID-19 while providing support to affected smallers countries as calls are made for China to pay billions in penalties due to their coverup.
Before Beijing's crackdown, China's bureaucracy had been conducting business as usual – analysing, assessing and reporting on everything about its citizenry. The researchers from Washington University and Ohio State University say they have tracked down this early government data and combined it with reports in state-controlled and social media.
Among this data was the activities of eight crematories in Wuhan. By January 25 these were inexplicably operating around the clock.
Based on such sources, the researchers argue the total number of infections and fatalities before February was at least ten times that of the official figure announced by Beijing.
[...] The study tracked the sale [of] funeral urns to verify these estimates. In the January-March period during which the crematoriums were operating at peak levels, some 36,000 had been distributed.
(Score: 2) by Kitsune008 on Tuesday June 16 2020, @02:36AM (2 children)
That would be reasonable and rational, but that is not the reality we live in.
The GOP are finding their overall support on some major issues is falling, and has been for some time, but apathy in voter participation hid this, IMO.
Like cornered rats, they are turning vicious, and lashing out in a last forlorn hope/Hail Mary to stay in power.
From the CDC website today:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html [cdc.gov]
Last updated on June 15, 2020
Total Cases 2,085,769
Total Deaths 115,644
Do the math. We're talking about a 5% death rate for COVID-19. Far worse than the seasonal flu.
I honestly can't envision the mental and policy gymnastics they will resort to, but be assured they will try.
BTW, Agent Orange is coming to my neck of the woods soon, despite the objections of the top health official in Oklahoma.
We are seeing a spike in cases, and clicking on a waiver to register to attend his rally on the 20th(he sadly tried to hold it on the 19th: Juneteenth, in the city of African American massacres in 1921, including bombing of black areas with aircraft) is not immunity from the virus.
Gee thanks, asshole.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 16 2020, @09:18AM (1 child)
Death rate from known/recorded cases. Since a good amount of infected people go through with mild (or no) symptoms without even knowing they caught it:
- the good news is "5% death rate is the max" (rrright! good news, huh!)
- the bad news is "unless the most draconian isolation is observed, covid-19 will run its course until a vaccine becomes available or the humans evolve an immune response which makes a common cold from covid19"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @09:53AM
We are almost certainly undercounting infections for the reasons you suggested and also the limited availability of testing for even more serious cases. However, we are also almost certainly undercounting the deaths from COVID-19 [nytimes.com].