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Over Half Of Brazil's Coronavirus Cases Arrived From Italy - And That Is WHO's Fault
//The number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95 percent if China had been transparent about the virus three weeks earlier - and if the World Health Organisation had not once again been willing dupes for dictators and believed what they said months ago.
//They believed director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus when he said he had "absolutely no doubt about China’s commitment to transparency” and have paid the price.
//Brazil has found itself with 14,000 cases that they know about and nowhere near the needed infrastructure to manage it.
//Brazilians researchers calculated how coronavirus arrived using genome sequencing of patients: 55 percent came from Italy while 9 percent came from China and 8 percent from France. All by March 5th, five weeks after the US imposed travel restrictions and a week before WHO declared coronavirus a pandemic.
//At the time I had thought perhaps WHO was being reasonable and not panicking but it turns out they were just as timid as they always are when it comes to demanding the truth from dictatorships.
Full Article: Science20, (09-Apr)
https://bit.ly/34oq5Q6
#WHO #Brazil #US #China #Coronavirus #Dictatorship
Over Half Of Brazil's Coronavirus Cases Arrived From Italy - And That Is WHO's Fault
//The number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95 percent if China had been transparent about the virus three weeks earlier - and if the World Health Organisation had not once again been willing dupes for dictators and believed what they said months ago.
//They believed director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus when he said he had "absolutely no doubt about China’s commitment to transparency” and have paid the price.
//Brazil has found itself with 14,000 cases that they know about and nowhere near the needed infrastructure to manage it.
//Brazilians researchers calculated how coronavirus arrived using genome sequencing of patients: 55 percent came from Italy while 9 percent came from China and 8 percent from France. All by March 5th, five weeks after the US imposed travel restrictions and a week before WHO declared coronavirus a pandemic.
//At the time I had thought perhaps WHO was being reasonable and not panicking but it turns out they were just as timid as they always are when it comes to demanding the truth from dictatorships.
Full Article: Science20, (09-Apr)
https://bit.ly/34oq5Q6
#WHO #Brazil #US #China #Coronavirus #Dictatorship
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Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions for containing the COVID-19 outbreak in China
Background The COVID-19 outbreak containment strategies in China based on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) appear to be effective. Quantitative research is still needed however to assess the efficacy of different candidate NPIs and their timings to…
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VivaTaiwan Campaign on Twitter
(26 May)Brazilian councillor shared a threatening letter issued on 13 May by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the tweet and said the Chinese embassy had recommended that Brazilian lawmakers stay silent regarding Tsai's inauguration.
Netizens in Brazil expressed their dissatisfaction with Beijing by starting a "VivaTaiwan" (Long live Taiwan) campaign on Twitter. "VivaTaiwan" became a trend on Twitter and netizens printed the letter on toilet paper as a derivative work.
Source: Origos, Twitter
#Brazil #VivaTaiwan #Taiwan #GlobalSupport #ChinaInfluence
VivaTaiwan Campaign on Twitter
(26 May)Brazilian councillor shared a threatening letter issued on 13 May by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the tweet and said the Chinese embassy had recommended that Brazilian lawmakers stay silent regarding Tsai's inauguration.
Netizens in Brazil expressed their dissatisfaction with Beijing by starting a "VivaTaiwan" (Long live Taiwan) campaign on Twitter. "VivaTaiwan" became a trend on Twitter and netizens printed the letter on toilet paper as a derivative work.
Source: Origos, Twitter
#Brazil #VivaTaiwan #Taiwan #GlobalSupport #ChinaInfluence
Brazilian Federal Government Unwilling to Buy Chinese Vaccines, Only Buying Products Developed by British Pharmaceutical Companies and Oxford University
In an interview with local Brazilian media on 14th October, Sao Paulo State Health Secretary Jean Gorinchteyn confirmed that the Brazilian federal government had not appropriated funds to purchase the Wuhan Virus vaccine (CoronaVac) from China. Clinical trials of CoronaVac are being conducted in Brazil and the Butantan Institute of Sao Paulo State is in collaboration with research and development.
Gorinchteyn had also stated that in an earlier Ministry of Health meeting, the Brazilian federal government had confirmed they would only purchase vaccines jointly developed by British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University and were not planning on purchasing CoronaVac. Besides the guaranteed purchase of 61 million doses of the Oxford vaccines that the Brazilian federal government had already committed to, authorities are unwilling to purchase additional vaccines, but did not explain the reason why funds were not appropriated to buy the Chinese vaccine.
#WuhanVirus #Brazil #vaccines #AstraZeneca #CoronaVac #Oxford #UK
Source: Stand News #Oct16
In an interview with local Brazilian media on 14th October, Sao Paulo State Health Secretary Jean Gorinchteyn confirmed that the Brazilian federal government had not appropriated funds to purchase the Wuhan Virus vaccine (CoronaVac) from China. Clinical trials of CoronaVac are being conducted in Brazil and the Butantan Institute of Sao Paulo State is in collaboration with research and development.
Gorinchteyn had also stated that in an earlier Ministry of Health meeting, the Brazilian federal government had confirmed they would only purchase vaccines jointly developed by British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University and were not planning on purchasing CoronaVac. Besides the guaranteed purchase of 61 million doses of the Oxford vaccines that the Brazilian federal government had already committed to, authorities are unwilling to purchase additional vaccines, but did not explain the reason why funds were not appropriated to buy the Chinese vaccine.
#WuhanVirus #Brazil #vaccines #AstraZeneca #CoronaVac #Oxford #UK
Source: Stand News #Oct16
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