#ShannonBrandao, #ChinaBoss: Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak: Chinese Doctors Being Coerced: Is Another China Lead Health Crisis Cover-Up Underway?

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From The article: "💯🏆Annie Sparrow, FP [excerpt]: In Beijing and other megacities in #China, hospitals are overflowing with children suffering #pneumonia or similar severe ailments. However, the Chinese government claims that no new #pathogen has been found and that the surge in chest infections is due simply to the usual winter coughs and colds, aggravated by the lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions in December 2022. The World Health Organization (#WHO) has dutifully repeated this reassurance, as if it learned nothing from Beijing’s disastrous cover-up of the COVID-19 outbreak.

There is an element of truth in Beijing’s assertion, but it is only part of the story. The general acceptance that China is not covering up a novel pathogen this time appears reassuring. In fact, however, China could be incubating an even greater threat: the cultivation of #antibiotic-resistant strains of a common, and potentially deadly, bacteria.

Fears of another novel respiratory pathogen emerging from China are understandable after the SARS and COVID-19 pandemics, both of which Beijing covered up. Concerns are amplified by Beijing’s ongoing obstruction of any independent investigation into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19—whether it accidentally leaked from the Wuhan lab performing dangerous gain-of-function research or derived from the illegal trade in racoon dogs and other wildlife at the now-infamous Wuhan wet-market.

Four years ago, during the early weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak, Beijing failed to report the new #virus and then denied airborne spread. At pains to maintain their fiction, Chinese authorities punished #doctors who raised concerns and prohibited doctors from speaking even to Chinese colleagues, let alone international counterparts. Chinese medical statistics remain deeply unreliable; the country still claims that total COVID-19 deaths sit at just over 120,000, whereas independent estimates suggest the number may have been over 2 million in just the initial outbreak alone. Now, Chinese doctors are once again being silenced and not communicating with their counterparts abroad, which suggests another potentially dangerous cover-up may be underway."

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#ShannonBrandao, #ChinaBoss: Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak: Chinese Doctors Being Coerced: Is Another China Lead Health Crisis Cover-Up Underway?

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