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Schools getting closed in China due to mysterious pneumonia outbreak

Nobody_Important

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Krieger said:
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But seriously, fuck this shit. Most of my family, friends and acquaintances told me they are so done with all the shit that happened during Covid that they won't get a vaccine if another pandemic happens.
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FunkMiller

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Alright, calm down all you panicky bitches.

It’s just the same surge in respiratory illness we all suffered after lockdown measures were lifted. Kids got the same thing in schools here. …Only difference is China is a fucking shithole that doesn’t provide adequate healthcare. It’s not Covid23.
 
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Wildebeest

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FunkMiller said:
Alright, calm down all you panicky bitches.

It’s just the same surge in respiratory illness we all suffered after lockdown measures were lifted. Kids got the same thing in schools here. …Only difference is China is a fucking shithole that doesn’t provide adequate healthcare. It’s not Covid23.
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It's not sounding like nothing from reports. Hospitals are over normal capacity in areas outside where they are closing schools, and it's all kids. No evidence that it is Covid but also no evidence that it isn't something worse like a new avian flu. Actual clenched buttocks time.
 
Nobody_Important

Nobody_Important

“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
FunkMiller said:
Alright, calm down all you panicky bitches.

It’s just the same surge in respiratory illness we all suffered after lockdown measures were lifted. Kids got the same thing in schools here. …Only difference is China is a fucking shithole that doesn’t provide adequate healthcare. It’s not Covid23.
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Panicky bitches aside, it's always entertaining to watch people swear up and down that they won't do the obviously smart move and get a vaccine in the midst of a new disease regardless of its origin.


It's not every day that you get to hear the cries of the lemmings as they sail off the cliff.
 
FunkMiller

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Wildebeest said:
It's not sounding like nothing from reports. Hospitals are over normal capacity in areas outside where they are closing schools, and it's all kids. No evidence that it is Covid but also no evidence that it isn't something worse like a new avian flu. Actual clenched buttocks time.
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It's mycoplasma pneumonia. It ripped through the schools in the UK. Have a couple of teacher friends, and they both got ill, so did nearly every school kid they knew over a period of a few months. Difference is, we're a decent democratic society with a healthcare system that works (more or less). This isn't an indicator of a new pandemic, but it's sure as shit an indicator of how appalling China actually is.
 
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Clear

Clear

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FunkMiller said:
Alright, calm down all you panicky bitches.

It’s just the same surge in respiratory illness we all suffered after lockdown measures were lifted. Kids got the same thing in schools here. …Only difference is China is a fucking shithole that doesn’t provide adequate healthcare. It’s not Covid23.
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Agreed, the Telegraph article adds much needed context which suggests that its the result of a combination of suppressed immunity following years of masking, and increased bacterial resistance to macrolide antibiotics which is particularly bad in China.

It also points out that although bad and widespread, its not resulting in many deaths, just 7-14 day hospitalizations.
 
EviLore

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apnews.com

WHO asks China for more information about rise in illnesses and pneumonia clusters

The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.
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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

The U.N. health agency cited unspecified media reports and a global infectious disease monitoring service as reporting clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children in northern China. In a statement late Wednesday, WHO said it was unclear whether those were linked to a rise in respiratory infections reported by Chinese authorities.

Outside scientists said the situation warranted close monitoring, but were not convinced that the recent spike in respiratory illnesses in China signaled the start of a new global outbreak.

The emergence of new flu strains or other viruses capable of triggering pandemics typically starts with undiagnosed clusters of respiratory illness. Both SARS and COVID-19 were first reported as unusual types of pneumonia.

WHO noted that authorities at China’s National Health Commission on Nov. 13 reported an increase in respiratory diseases, which they said was due to the lifting of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. Other countries also saw a jump in respiratory diseases such as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, when pandemic restrictions ended.



WHO said media reports about a week later reported clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children in northern China.

“It is unclear if these are associated with the overall increase in respiratory infections previously reported by Chinese authorities, or separate events,” WHO said, adding that it had requested more details from China about currently circulating viruses and any increased burden on hospitals, via an international legal mechanism.

Dr. David Heymann of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said there was a likely background of seasonal respiratory infections.

“The challenge is to discern the outbreaks and determine the cause,” Heymann said in a statement, adding that genetic sequencing and isolating cases would be critical. He led WHO’s response to the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.

Francois Balloux of University College London said the current wave of disease in China was likely due to respiratory illnesses like flu, RSV or a bacterial infection.

He said China was probably experiencing a significant wave of childhood infections since this was the first winter since lockdown restrictions were lifted, which likely reduced children’s immunity to common bugs.

“Unless new evidence emerges, there is no reason to suspect the emergence of a novel pathogen,” Balloux said.

WHO said that northern China has reported a jump in influenza-like illnesses since mid-October compared to the previous three years. It is rare for the U.N. health agency to publicly ask for more detailed information from countries, as such requests are typically made internally.

The outbreaks have swamped some hospitals in northern China, including in Beijing, and health authorities have asked the public to take children with less severe symptoms to clinics and other facilities.

The average number of patients in the internal medicine department at Beijing Children’s Hospital topped 7,000 per day, exceeding the hospital’s capacity, state-owned China National Radio said in an online article earlier this week.

China’s National Health Commission, in a written Q&A posted online by the official Xinhua News Agency, suggested Thursday that children with mild symptoms “first visit primary healthcare institutions or pediatrics departments of general hospitals” because large hospitals are crowded and have long waiting times.

The health commission said it has been paying close attention to the high incidence of infectious diseases among children and is “guiding local authorities to enhance coordinated scheduling and implement a tiered diagnosis and treatment system.”

After SARS broke out in southern China in 2002, Beijing officials told doctors to hide patients, with some being driven around in ambulances while WHO scientists were visiting the country. That prompted WHO to threaten to close its office in China.

Nearly two decades later, China stalled on sharing critical details about the coronavirus with the U.N. health agency after the new virus emerged in late 2019. WHO publicly applauded China’s commitment to stopping the virus — weeks before it started causing explosive epidemics worldwide.

“While WHO seeks this additional information, we recommend that people in China follow measures to reduce the risk of respiratory illness,” the agency said, advising people to get vaccinated, isolate if they are feeling ill, wear masks if necessary and get medical care as needed.
 
Alebrije

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Wow, this feels like when you beat a boss and suddently you see its life bar replenish ....and stars a seccond phase...
 
jufonuk

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It’s either going to be something that’s gonna blow over or it’s gonna be a
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Situation.
 
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Raven117

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Yeah… whatever. The world is not going to shut down again. China Can freak out of it wants to. But from my seat, there is no appetite to go through that again (for little if any results)
 
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Outlier

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China's a very big place, with too many people living in substandard conditions. We shouldn't be surprised when disease runs rampant, from time to time.

The Real problem is the CCP trying to brush every problem under a rug, before others find out.
 
Mr Reasonable

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Completely Unreasonable
If another pandemic requiring lockdowns were to occur (not saying this is that), I wonder if governments would act quickly or take the same slow, cautious route.
 
RJMacready73

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Simps for Amouranth
I don't trust a goddamn word that comes out of China, just to be safe I'm stocking up on Pasta and bog roll and going full Hazmat to the local shops
 
Doczu

Doczu

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Yeah fuck it. Can't wait for it all to start over again, with all the people going broken cause they can't work, vaccination and mask psychosis and another round of inflation!
 
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