Maria Pilipinas

'SIX KEY DAYS, THAT COULD HAVE SAVED THE WORLD FROM THE PANDEMIC' BUT CHINA LIED... China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days By The Associated Press [April 15, 2020] In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations. President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20. But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data. Six days... That delay from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20 was neither the first mistake made by Chinese officials at all levels in confronting the outbreak, nor the longest lag, as governments around the world have dragg

The Wuhan Memo ... Updated April 17, 2020/ There has been so much information presented to us since the outbreak that we can comment fervently on a random piece of trendy events without serious reflection. But we would suffer a great deal from biases and misinformation if we ignore the chain reactions behind each event. To facilitate serious and balanced reflection, our team catalogued and classified the news and information into a comprehensive timeline. Such report contains the daily record for epidemic development and global countermeasure strategies. We sincerely hope it provides a panoramic index and guide for analyzing the development of the epidemic. I would like to thank my team (Wang Deyu, Wang Kaiming, Li Yun, Zili Yang, Amy Ma, Anna Chen, Dong Guo, Wu Pinghui, Han Lianchao, Valerie Lau, Tessa Eftimiades, Daniel Gong) for their extraordinary work. We will continue to monitor and update on new developments. –  Yang Jianli, February 11, 2020. THE TIMELINE... 18-SE