The head of Medical Science University in Qom, Mohammad Reza Ghadir, said on state television that the Health Ministry had banned releasing figures on the outbreak in the city.
Outside medical experts said reporting on the total number of cases of infection in Iran was possibly lagging behind reporting on deaths. That could be because Iranian authorities are missing less severe cases across the country because of how they are testing and diagnosing patients, because of how information is shared or because of flawed medical equipment.
It's unclear whether Iran has the ability to find out how many people have been infected, which would require venturing out to towns and villages to conduct tests and not simply relying on who goes to large hospitals with severe symptoms, said, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Another possibility is that the patients are from an elderly, more vulnerable part of the population, Schaffner said.
OMG!! Conspiracy Theories!! The Media is getting ridiculous about this!!
Well their government never gave a crap about its people before so why should they now.
BrandiLynn4Ever Well there more focused on hurting everyone
Iran is good at using coronavirus excuses to clean political enemies
No surprise there for a country that has been under western economic terrorism for 41 years!
Here in the US, our CDC has been ordered to make no public statements unless they are first approved by the White House. No different than Iran.
It’s a fatality rate, not a mortality rate. If we were talking mortality, that would mean 11% of Iranians died from coronavirus. Fatality: 11% of those infected died from coronavirus.
clearly the same way it handles everything with lies and misinformation
Situation in 🇰🇷!!!
Best guess is they do not have tests to properly diagnose, so many more have the disease than are being reported.
Not surprised. Ya know, Iran really gives a crap about their people
American planted virus for it's enemy countries
My take from your report is that we may be morally obligated to send them money.
Its trumps fault.
Maybe they invest more in terrorism than healthcare?
Their vice president has it, and has been around their other leadership.
Muslim ☪️ medicine and medical facilities unable to contain the cirona virus 🦠, or why is their percentile so out of proportion?! Lack of medical access, apathy, or what?!
Coronavirus kills protests
anblanx Iran is handling it like DJT has handled it here. 🤦♀️
And how many deaths have occurred here in the US due to the 'flu' I mean, since only 445 tests have been given, how in the world can we be sure?
😯11%? The people from China been saying their government was lying about the number of deaths! 2% my ars.
Cuz Iranian people are finding out about it from this on Twitter!!!
Seen on yahoo finance/Vystar... the Vystar company told member that their RXAIR purifier, is effective in regards to killing the virus... can NBC check on this
There are 1000s of Iranians infected, don't believe the numbers.
And what is the figure from South Korea?
I’m guessing they’re not reporting a lot of the less serious cases, so it’s inflating the death rate. So yeah their death rate is probably lower, but they total number infected is probably way higher.
Maybe they're just exterminating their protesters also.
Iran government brought this virus to Iran to kill people who got arrested 3 months ago in the protests and are in prison right now!! So sad that the Islamic Republican of Iran is the cause of killing all these normal people!!
More scary, it might raise questions as to if the reported Chinese mortality rate is accurate?
Iran should ask china for help, they are buddies and there is no sanctions between them, they’re free to trade and travel, They dont need anybody else, maybe get some help the wonderfull cuban healthcare system, so advanced
That is a problem with a religious government that says you can defeat the virus by praying, they do not listen to doctors!!!
COVID2019 in China had 5-7 mutated varients. They may have different transmission and fatality rates. A more virulent form may be causing the increased Iranian fatality rate. CoronavirusOutbreak coronavirus
I thought it would raise more questions how it started, by hook or by crook
Or China is lying about their death rate.
When the danger finally passes, and Iranians can come out of their semi-quarantined state, they're going to be pissed off at their government. Way more than they were before.
I think it’s because Iran doesn’t have hospitals
Iran vaccines.
They probably just kill their infected.
The fact that so many Canadians travel freely to/from Iran is concerning. Our northern border is practically non-existent.
people over there die from a lot of things. You want to live in the dark ages, so be it!
Sanctions will do that to a country.
I mean...when your minister of health is up there at a news conference, mopping his brow, sick for all to see, infecting everyone around him.....perhaps that's not the best way to be handling this virus.
Mortality rate in China and Iran is more due to poor care than the severity of the virus. Still zero deaths in USA. NBC fear mongering.
I’m with realDonaldTrump on this. To the base. This a fake virus. Please take 0 precautions to protect yourself or other MAGAs. Go to Trump rallies, hug, kiss, shake hands with your fellow Trumpers. You have nothing to worry about. It’s all fake. Put it out of your mind.
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