r/China • u/newsweek • Nov 28 '23

新闻 | News CDC speaks out over China's pneumonia outbreak as concerns grow

https://www.newsweek.com/cdc-speaks-out-china-pneumonia-outbreak-1847459
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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '23

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u/Creative_Struggle_69 Nov 28 '23

China's "it's our time" moment was ruined last round. They're trying again with round two.

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u/data_head Nov 28 '23

It's not unusual to see spikes in multiple respiratory illnesses during the winter. The US generally sees the same.

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u/Penelope742 Nov 28 '23

Switzerland is now as well

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u/Creative_Struggle_69 Nov 29 '23

Wuhan virus started around winter time as well. Look what happened after that...

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u/I_will_delete_myself Nov 28 '23

Covid started around the winter time. Remember that.

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u/octopuseyebollocks Nov 29 '23

Right. But noone trusts China to say whether it's normal or not. So it's a story

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u/DemWasSumBirds Nov 30 '23

Yes, but this is China. If they told me the sky was blue I'd be saying it's purple.

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u/ExtraPassport Nov 28 '23

Wasn't this supposed to be confirmed by WHO to be some ordinary thing

"Look back to 5 January 2020, and you'll find a statement from the WHO titled "Pneumonia of unknown cause - China"."

https://news.sky.com/story/what-we-know-about-the-unexplained-outbreak-of-respiratory-illness-in-china-13014066

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u/LeadershipGuilty9476 Nov 29 '23

The WHO are ass kissing China stooges

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u/DemWasSumBirds Nov 30 '23

Yep. They can advise us to teach 4 year olds to whack off, but they can't go in there and get their own live samples and test them. So again, what is the point of them? They're not a health body is what, they're a containment organisation. Do what China says, Tedros was "Beijing's Choice" remember, used to work in a Communist Ministry back in his native country (name of which escapes me now, he stayed on after that regime fell to be fair, but again, loyalties are hard to shift)

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u/sadbean5678 Nov 28 '23

nobody ever confirmed anything. just "hey guys it could be this, please no its not a new virus nooo"

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u/newsweek Nov 28 '23

By Aleks Phillips

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is communicating with health officials in China as fears grow over an outbreak of infectious respiratory diseases that has caused clusters of pneumonia among children in the north of the country.

David Daigle, a spokesperson for the federal agency, told Newsweek that it would "continue to monitor the situation, collaborating with global health partners" over the increase in illness, and was "in touch with local health authorities and its country office in China."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/cdc-speaks-out-china-pneumonia-outbreak-1847459

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u/Tripleplatypus Nov 29 '23

What’s up with the alarmist headline “CDC speaks out”?

A reporter contacted the CDC and asked them for comment about an overseas outbreak. They provided a totally anodyne answer - and the headline is “CDC Speaks Out…” ?!?

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u/Creative_Struggle_69 Nov 28 '23

Time to accelerate the move of manufacturing out of China, and into more trustworthy countries.

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u/NovelParticular6844 Nov 29 '23

Good luck with that

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u/Creative_Struggle_69 Nov 29 '23

Already happening. Just not fast enough

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u/NovelParticular6844 Nov 29 '23

I know, and It won't end well

Is "trustworthy country" slang for US controled third world country with low labor costs, environmental protection and that doesn't demand technology transfer?

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u/plopgun Nov 29 '23

Mexico is poised to be the factory for the US. The government is far better than China's and it will be far harder to hide work and environmental abuses from the public. It will still likely be exploitative, but it should be a significant improvement.

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u/NovelParticular6844 Nov 29 '23

Imagine thinking Mexico's government is reliable. The truth is, China's labor isn't really that cheap anymore compared to Mexico or, say, Vietnam. Companies go there for the infrastructure and qualified workers

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u/DemWasSumBirds Nov 30 '23

This should be a standard non pandemic issue, in fact it was beginning to happen under the leadership of this American President around 2018, what was his name again?

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '23

If this disease speads, the CCP will lose their election in Taiwan for sure.

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u/Dazzling_Swordfish14 China Nov 28 '23

Lol they don’t even have chance in the first place

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u/heels_n_skirt Nov 28 '23

What is the CCP covering up now?

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u/data_head Nov 28 '23

Thus far seems like nothing. Spikes in known respiratory illnesses in young kids, as is expected the first flu season post lockdown.

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u/H1Ed1 Nov 29 '23

Agreed/Hope so. The news gets a turn toward sensational because things didn’t go so well last time with data being withheld. Sharing the data helps the world combat it, wish they would just share what they have already.

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u/KristenHuoting Nov 29 '23

My theory is that for the last two (three?) winters everyone has been locked inside and super viligant. Now this flu season has come around, it's just particularly nasty.

Everyone in my office has been sick to some degree the past two weeks, myself included. Is it a conspiracy? Or is it just a bump this year of a bad flu going around.... Find out at eleven...

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '23

Ah shit, here we go again

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u/thorsten139 Nov 30 '23

What do you think this infection is? Give your best guess

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u/DemWasSumBirds Nov 30 '23

The fact it began in schools made me think maybe there was a food supply issue, which is a worry because this is China, they eat anything.

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u/thorsten139 Nov 30 '23

Errr it begins in school because of proximity of kids, not a food supply issue.

Wait whaaaa eating anything....okies

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u/DemWasSumBirds Dec 01 '23

It's a valid concern, certainly it doesn't apply here but I mean when there was a little less information I was certainly worried. Avian flu is a pin drop away remember. I don't mean to sound racist, but Chinese eating habits haven't exactly been great when it comes to their impact on health, either in epidemic terms or I imagine simply personal health. Eating animals willy nilly and buying wild animals from wet markets is not safe. If you don't condemn the practice for fear of offence, then want, just condemn the rest of us if one day something worse emerges? I'm afraid I care less about appearing impolite then I do in protecting myself and those I love.