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soryang

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8. right

Reply to defacto7 (Reply #7)

Tue Feb 18, 2020, 04:43 PM

Feb 2020

i can understand when reporters on the scene may not yet have the latest facts when they are preparing for a live broadcast but anything other than facts is to be avoided when there are so many unknowns at this point.

The US used it's political pull with Japan to get our people off the ship. The presence of a US doctor on board with some experience studying an older epidemic, i'm sure helped decision makers.

I think there is a desire to get to the bottom of any misrepresentations or coverup on the Chinese side, but the bias goes the other way toward Japan.

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Expert's opinions on the coronavirus outbreak [View all] defacto7 Feb 2020 OP

The good news for me is that medical teams in Thailand have reported success in treating abqtommy Feb 2020 #1

I read that it was successful in some defacto7 Feb 2020 #3

I think a lot of the success is due to the Placebo Effect, ya know, which mandates that if a person abqtommy Feb 2020 #11

Have there been any recent stories about this treatment? nt. Mariana Feb 2020 #9

Unless your computer is one of the early coal-fired models you should have a functioning abqtommy Feb 2020 #10

Those were published more than two weeks ago. Mariana Feb 2020 #13

Looked like new info to me. Let me know what you come up with. abqtommy Feb 2020 #14

We have very different ideas of what constitutes "new info" then. Mariana Feb 2020 #16

An atomic scale map of the virus has been developed, which is a critical step toward a vaccine and tblue37 Feb 2020 #17

K&R smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #2

Japan infectious disease specialist describes his day on the Diamond Princess soryang Feb 2020 #4

That's an eye opener. defacto7 Feb 2020 #5

I'm not surprised at all. soryang Feb 2020 #6

I get the impression that English language press defacto7 Feb 2020 #7

right soryang Feb 2020 #8

Need home testing kits. moondust Feb 2020 #12

I wish I could rec this more than once (n/t) wackadoo wabbit Feb 2020 #15