The State of Israel is adding three more laboratories to the one already in operation at Tel Hashomer Medical Center – and that one will increase the number of tests being carried out, according to an announcement Tuesday by the Health Ministry. The three additional laboratories for coronavirus testing and verification will be located at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, and at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. [Israelis have faith in their medical establishment, but the deceptive information about the ’source’ impedes proper analyses]
The ministry also reported that 140 people in Israel who were suspected of having caught the virus have been examined and all were in the clear. [this could be deceptive because the “testing kits” supplied are deficient and reporting “negative” and “positive” incorrectly. and because the incubation period could be as long as 24 days, some are reporting, but at least 14, before symptoms are full–blown]. [UPDATE: . . . the CDC is admitting that its own test kits which were widely distributed to hospitals and clinics across all 50 U.S. states, are also failing. They producing both false negatives (missed infections) and false positives (saying people are infected when they really aren’t), both of which lead to horrific errors in deciding who should be quarantined or treated.
Citizen Journalist ‘Disappears’
The death toll from the virus in China reached 1,018 on Monday, with all but five of the victims originating in the Hubei province, the epicenter of the epidemic.
The figures marked the first time that more than 100 people had died from the virus (108) in a single day. The country’s National Health Commission reported a total of 43,114 confirmed cases of the illness worldwide, of which 42,638 were in China. The virus has spread to at least 24 countries.
UPDATE: already in a few hours – China on Thursday reported 254 new deaths
and a spike in virus cases of 15,152 (do we believe this)
Citizen journalist and attorney Chen Qiushi has disappeared after meticulously documenting and reporting on the coronavirus from the epicenter of the epidemic for nearly two weeks, South China Morning Post reported Monday.
Chen, an attorney by profession, traveled to Wuhan on January 24 to personally see what was happening. He reported on everything from the construction of hospitals from the ground up, to the burial centers around the city. His reports were seen by Chinese citizens using a VPN to evade the Chinese government’s censorship laws, according to the CCN website.
“As long as I live in this city I will continue to report,” Chen said in his final video. “I only report what I see, what I hear.”
Tearfully, perhaps even knowing already it might be his last report, Chen said, “I really want to be blunt, right? Today … I’m not even afraid of death. You think I’m afraid of the Communist Party?”
The journalist went missing on the same day that the death of Dr. Li Wenliang was reported. Dr. Li, an ophthalmologist who was the first medical professional to correctly identify and report the coronavirus to his colleagues, was promptly punished by the government.
Source: again, JewishPress, reporting.
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