Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Now for China. Initially, the Mayor of Wuhan and Governor of Hubei took a "business first" approach and tried to suppress the information so as not to impact the economy (and their career). When words got to Beijing, Xi decided to take a "prevent death first" (using your term) approach and, to hell with the economy, locked down Hubei and implement other drastic actions across the entire country, and threw the country's resources into fighting the virus spread. Only now the country is starting to address the economic impact of the Covid-19. How much damage it has done remains to be seen. But most economist forecasts are not pretty.
I am not so sure that is true there is only lapses of 2 weeks and dont forget they are not so sure waht hit them and only 2 or 3 it is hard to say that the virus is transmitted by human contact But once they get proof that it spread thru contact they activate the ban So the western media is slandering China Read my article few pages back !
And making excuses for their own negligence Afterall they have 2 months to prepare and they do nothing YUP ZIP!
China covered up whether it was human-to-human transmissible
This quoting the New England Medical Journal is frequently used as evidence that China covered up information about its transmissibility. The journal states that “there is evidence that human-to-human transmission has occurred among close contacts since the middle of December 2019.”
This quoting Lancet presents two cases of human-to-human transmission before January 20. One is the wife of the first person who died. The other is a family in Shenzhen.
Yes, both China and WHO knew about these cases and did not declare the virus was human-to-human transmissible at the time.
That is because “limited human-to-human transmission between close contacts” is not the same as declaring it “human-to-human transmissible”. For it to be officially declared “human-to-human transmissible” there had to be evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission.
It was only when there was widespread infection to medical staff on the 20th of January that there was sufficient evidence to declare it was “human-to-human transmissible”.