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2020-02-05 China-Japan-Koreas
Wuhan medic says 'there are many more coronavirus deaths and infections than reported' because those who die while waiting to be tested are not considered victims of the virus
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[Daily Mail - Where America gets its news] A Wuhan medic has said there are more deaths from coronavirus than reported, as patients are dying before they can even be tested for the virus.

Hospital worker Jeisi Luo, not his real name, also made the shocking claim that there are far more cases than official figures suggest, because the waiting list for diagnosis is too long.

Official figures from China claim there are 24,000 cases in the country, with 13,522 of these recorded in the virus epicentre and surrounding Hubei province, although the actual figure is suspected to be higher.

A video emerged two weeks ago from the province of a medical worker claiming there are as many as 90,000 cases in the city.

Footage filmed at Wuhan's Number Three hospital this week showed eight body bags loaded in a bus, with more allegedly added while the recorder was inside the hospital for five minutes.

Mr Luo warned that the problem lies in an inability to carry out enough nucleic acid tests (NAT), which diagnose the virus.

'When preliminary tests determine that a patient has a lung sickness, the nucleic acid test which detects the virus, cannot always be carried out because the waiting list is too long,' he told DW. 'The patient is therefore not diagnosed.'

He said medics were dealing with this crisis by 'prescribing medicine' and sending patients home to 'self-isolate'.
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
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#1 So, they're following the VA reporting model.

Snark O'The Day
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-05 03:25||   2020-02-05 03:25|| Front Page Top

#2 China adds new symptoms to coronavirus diagnostic list

Health authorities also warn that discovery of virus in patients’ faeces suggest that it could be another source of transmission
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-05 11:03||   2020-02-05 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh sh*t, I just knew this was going to result in me getting probed!
Posted by Beau 2020-02-05 11:29||   2020-02-05 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 And I stand here, gun in hand, redundant.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-05 12:02||   2020-02-05 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 re #1 Also the model used to count Democrat caucus votes in Iowa.
Posted by AlanC 2020-02-05 12:16||   2020-02-05 12:16|| Front Page Top

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