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#China’s #GreatWallofOpacity at work – as frequently reported regarding the #COVID2019 outbreak in #Wuhan and surrounding #Hubei province. Putting #globalhealth at risk through lying by omission is an ugly look. Not to mention the #publichealth of millions of Chinese citizens.

https://twitter.com/AndrewSErickson/status/1227783723514519552

#China says new #COVID19 diagnostic method caused numbers jump. Nucleic acid lab test was too slow & unreliable. Now using clinical level lung x-rays to see pneumonia. But pneumonia has many causes. The Chinese system is struggling.
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@CDCgov‘s method:
>bit.ly/2OTnRlh

#China’s Tally of #COVID19 Cases Is Under Scrutiny.
@VUmedicine Infectious Disease expert: “China and the world community would like to restore a sense of normalcy but…we need to have confidence in what is going on and we’re not there yet.”
–@kmorit/@AP
>bit.ly/38uxrTs

Doctors in #China are diagnosing #COVID19 #coronavirus with chest X-rays & CT scans, which present similarly to SARS & MERS.
But the scans are only 1 of 5 things needed for valid diagnosis.
–@ariabendix/@businessinsider
>bit.ly/39z7B0I
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#globalhealth #publichealth

#China’s #coronavirus lockdown medley of high- & low-tech breaks neighborhoods down into gridlike units with “grid workers” enforcing “social order” regulations, tracing its methods back to #ImperialChina.
–@EmilyZFeng & @Amy_23_Cheng/@NPRGoatsandSoda
>n.pr/39VCPPP

Plain and simple…
#China’s #Hubei Province Is Dying…
–@business
>bloom.bg/2VeDbwO
…A Desperate Death
–@ywchen1, @TonyMunroe1/@Reuters
>reut.rs/3c0RA5w
…On The Front Line
–@JamieSeidel/@newscomauHQ
>bit.ly/2vXNQBC
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#COVID2019 #coronavirus #Wuhan

ICYMI
#COVID2019: Bat-borne germ or stolen microbe turned #bioweapon?
#China’s Communist Party is more interested in #infodemics than #epidemics, and it’s “blowing up bridges & burning trust”
–@JamesRGorrie/@EpochTimes 11 Feb 2020
bit.ly/2VufEbo
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#coronavirus #CPC/#CCP

#China’s ruling Communist Party has launched an overseas #propaganda drive to downplay the cover-up of the emerging #coronavirus outbreak and to push forth the narrative that the #COVID19 virus may not have originated in China at all…
–@RadioFreeAsia
>bit.ly/2WbiwKm

Chinese authorities finally own up to a #COVID19 #coronavirus outbreak in #Xinjiang #Uyghur AR – after previously calling it a “state secret” – but the story it’s telling now doesn’t add up…
–@RadioFreeAsia
>bit.ly/2W7GuWT
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#China #propaganda #disinformation

#China is working so hard to keep manufacturing from sliding into freefall during #coronavirus crisis that it has been filling factories with #Uyghur workers for weeks, despite #quarantines & health risks.
–@RadioFreeAsia
>bit.ly/2Q81GbQ
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#Uyghurs #Uighurs #humanrights

Chinese Evade #SocialMedia #Censorship to Repost Banned #Coronavirus Essay:
"Whistlemaker" by Ai Fen, #Wuhan Central Hospital Emer.Dept Dir., appeared in #China's People mag, but was swiftly deleted from the web & paper copies were removed
–@RadioFreeAsia
>bit.ly/3aOfpfG

Welcome to #China’s #Propaganda & #Disinformation This Week:
‘The #COVID19 #coronavirus is a US plot against China’
–@gerryshih/@washingtonpost
>wapo.st/2U78QxW
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–@iainmarlow, @JasonVScott/@bpolitics
>bloom.bg/3aTf6QE
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CPC‘s Global Times: >

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1238347249656057856

https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238404861860831233

.@CBSNews’ @EenaRuffini confirms @StateDept called #China’s @AmbCuiTiankai on the spot for “stern” face-to-face “frank discourse” about @MFA_China’s DepDir of Information @zlj517 #propaganda of conspiracy theory of US #coronavirus origin.
–@bychrisbrito
cbsn.ws/2Qtluqj

https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1238537882253606918

First in #China, then in the West, #ideology, #politics and #culture biases caused inadequate initial responses to the #COVID19 #coronavirus…
–@iandenisjohnson/@nytopinion
>nyti.ms/3a29GTH
OR
>bit.ly/3cWTeWs

#China and #Coronavirus in a new light:
From Home-Made Disaster to Global Mega-Opportunity
–@JoshKurlantzick/@theglobalist via @CFR_org
>on.cfr.org/3bjGuaY
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#COVID19 #globalorder #softpower #influenceops #natsec #strategy

#Wuhan's #coronavirus patient numbers were manipulated for #Xi visit, says doctor at local hospital. The govt numbers "cannot be trusted." Procedures were skirted and “suspected [infected] patients were released back into society.”
–@KyodoNewsENG
>bit.ly/3betYJu
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#China

#China’s domestic #disinformation blitz about foreign #coronavirus incompetence and disasters is swamping Chinese #socialmedia, and many are believing it.
–@Stephanietitu/@SixthTone
>bit.ly/3blvdGO
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#COVID19 #fakenews #propaganda @USCC_GOV

#China Is Trying to Rewrite The Present:
Its “campaign represents Beijing’s first truly international #propaganda offensive and a new front line in the global information war.”
–@limlouisa/@ForeignPolicy
>bit.ly/2QImabf
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#disinformation #coronavirus #natsec #strategy

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