In this Tuesday, March 10, 2020, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Top Chinese officials secretly determined they were likely facing a pandemic from a novel coronavirus in mid-January, ordering preparations even as they downplayed it in public.
“This is tremendous,” said Zuo-Feng Zhang, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “If they took action six days earlier, there would have been much fewer patients and medical facilities would have been sufficient. We might have avoided the collapse of Wuhan’s medical system.”
But what is clear, experts say, is that China’s rigid controls on information, bureaucratic hurdles and a reluctance to send bad news up the chain of command muffled early warnings.broadcast on national television on Jan. 2, sent a chill through the city’s hospitals. “Those accusing China of lacking transparency and openness are unfair,” foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Wednesday when asked about the AP story.The documents show that the head of China’s National Health Commission, Ma Xiaowei, laid out a grim assessment of the situation on Jan. 14 in a confidential teleconference with provincial health officials.
In the memo, Ma demanded officials unite around Xi and made clear that political considerations and social stability were key priorities during the long lead-up to China’s two biggest political meetings of the year in March. While the documents do not spell out why Chinese leaders waited six days to make their concerns public, the meetings may be one reason.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Hmmm, you guys at the AP don't use twitter that often, do you?
Trump easily trusts China. There is an unspoken rule or common sense in Asia, 'Do never trust China.'
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03/7 US CDC detects widespread influenza activity 03/28 US CDC confirms it's swine flu 04/24 US WHO issues 1st disease outbreak notice confirming the 'Swine Influenza A/H1N1 Why so many days if only they issued it less than 7 days from March 7 many lives would be saved!
Try harder you fools. Your own story confirms that China warned Wuhan to not to gather in public on the 31st of December.
And that must have been why it took the ignorant, incompetent Bone Spur another 70 days to act.
What have the western regimes and media done in the following 2 months after the 6 f**king days?
So, just party for 3 months straight leading to the exam, crash it and start blaming games. Sound logic right there to use throughout life. COVID19
Back in Jan 8th:
Here's the news on Jan 10th: Get your story straight.
If I could turn back time....
6 days vs 3 months 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Nicely done America
Show this pic to Trump. Real men wear masks to protect others.
Sounds good enough to me all considered
Sounds familiar
Sounds vaguely familiar
And the WHO backed this , thank you President realDonaldTrump for defunding that corrupt organization
Now that China is back open for business, how's it going
Okay we get it China lied but are all the leaders in the world that stupid to believe they whose responsible!!!!?
explain yourself, tsk tsk...
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The U.S regime ignored warnings for months..
Sounds just like Trump and Putin
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This is what happens when all you have is state owned propaganda.... The CCP’s ignorance cost thousands of innocent lives to be lost. What a shame the same thing is happening in the U.S.
Fox Channel reported on 04-15-2020 that intelligence officials revealed the COVID-19 Virus originated in China Wuhan Laboratory of Viral Studies. Officials say the scientists in the Wuhan lab were experimenting with bats when they believe at this time something went wrong.
Beijing downplayed alot of c19 because the gov didn't want to spread out the fear to people. Beijing even told president Xi that CH rather lose wuhan than the country (S: Social Tribune Daily). With that strategy it's able to move 36K men/women to save Wuhan without panic spread
djaballh That’s MARVELLOU!! 🤔🤔
Jerks.
Thank you, AP. CNN just can't bring itself to report.
You forgot to somehow spin this to be President Trump’s fault
The cognition process of new thing needs time. You can't tell someone's lifetime achievements in their infancy. You also can't figure out a virus is untransmissible, limited h2h, or unlimited h2h at first sight. It takes us about 3 months to know that CATS can catch COVID19 🤷.
So what. Trump downplayed lethality of Covid19 for 3 months.
Criminals
Sounds familiar!
Trump didn’t act until March - that would be 70 plus days
And Donald Trump waited over a month, playing golf and having fundraisers instead of taking it serious as it spread here. Both countries' leaders should be horse whipped.
Without the downplayed of 6 days would give Trump more confidence of totally under control, 'just a flu' and 'Democratic hoax'.
Is that so?
Twinsies!
So the Chinese are run by Republicans.
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WHO and China Xi lied to the world .The people of the world are dying.
They were the first gov't to downplay the virus but certainly not the last.
China should shut down those ' food market squares ' were they sell and eat dogs, rats, bats, cats....this virus is their fault. No excuses. During December 19, to February 20, millions of Chinese people travelling every where....nice 😷👍
I remember Trump saying something about talking with China about a trade deal but all they wanted to discuss was the virus.
Ours called it a hoax a month into it. Stone throwing in glass houses, commence!
bp22 6? I'd say 60!
Trump didn’t warn the public for 2 months.
Just 6 days, not 6 weeks. For any country, or huge organization, a decision must be made with complicated procedure, it never comes easy; 6 days is very fast as a tolerance window.
Sounds familiar 'there's no need to wear masks in public' [we don't have enough masks for the health care workers so let's pretend it's fine for the public to not wear masks]
But realDonaldTrump said President Xi was doing a good job?
That sounds eerily familiar.
Interestingly POTUS crap continue China accused of concentration camps, control, no transparency, currency manipulation, sea take over, property & copy right violations & always a bad Gov But, the blame is based on knowing it all about China Then, a nice phone call PT say...
So basically, the Chinese government is exactly like the US government, but they look different. Got it.
How is that different from the trump administration?
Ok, so 6 days when evidence was scant. Lads Trump downplayed it for 2months!!! Even after there were thousands of cases in the USA he downplayed it. He’s downplaying it now by suggesting states reopen. Open your eyes. He is literally killing US citizens with his ineptitude.
Trump played it off for 70
China is responsable for this , we should make them pay
6 days? Trump was warned about this in November and is still lying about it today.
total smearing fake news
That’s about six weeks faster than our government.
This sounds very familiar.
I will never trust their leadership again. I hope Trump stops kissing their ass.
This is exactly what our current president did.
So no different then here in America
Time for America and it’s companies to pull out of China!
You meant United States, right?
，yup and the WHO copied such statements loyally.
Keep retweeting that.
And the media ran with it.
6 DAYS!?!?!? Trump downplayed the virus for 6 FN weeks and you think China downplaying for 6 days is news?!?!?!
.... 6 whole days! Our leader ignored it for over a month!
sounds familiar
Thanks for clearing up news we already knew. Please let cnn know this.
Thanks China!
Aww... They're like the USA of the East
Well you’re expect this out of the communists, not of the President of the United States.
And after the lockdown on Jan 23, the west downplayed the risk for two key months…
*XI-NA NA-ZI!
china gave you clowns 2 month warning and now you taking out your own governments' incompetencies on the chinese. yall some real clowns.
Just 6? They've got nothing on 70. WeHaveTheBestNumbers
Sounds like someone we know realDonaldTrump
The WH said the same. It is low risk!
Sounds exactly like what happened in the US with the reckless and corrupt realDonaldTrump
6 whole days?!?! (The Trump Admin lied to the American public for two whole months).
Just like Trump.
its as if they had shares to offload
Lucky it wasn’t originated from Trump land. He told his countrymen it was just a common flu. Billions would have died if that was the case.
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