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Fauci: China misled the world; virus erupted in mid-December

Dr. Anthony Fauci says that human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 diseases erupted in China in mid-December, yet the communist regime told the U.S. and the world that the virus was only transmitted animal-to-human.

Dr. Fauci, an influential member of President Trump’s coronavirus task force, told the Fox News show “Watters’ World” over the weekend that as the disease spread to more people in mid-January in Wuhan and the surrounding Hubei province, the Chinese government said that human contagion was minimal, a fact that shaped for weeks the outside world’s sense of the danger and the appropriate response.

Both assertions were “clearly not correct … that was misinformation right from the beginning,” he said.

COVID-19 was, in fact, a highly contagious and deadly disease.

“Early on we did not get correct information, and the incorrect information was propagated right from the beginning,” Dr. Fauci said.

Republicans have accused the Chinese Communist Party, the dictatorship ruling the country, of deliberately concealing the virus’ spread. Chinese authorities threatened eight doctors with prison for trying to warn the world on social media about what would become a global pandemic.

The White House says that while China was hiding disease facts, it was also buying up lots of medical equipment around the world. When COVID-19 spread to other nations and began sickening and killing patients, China’s propaganda machine went into action, making the unfounded assertion that the U.S. Army planted the virus in Wuhan.

Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had himself relied on the Chinese disinformation to downplay COVID-19’s threat to America.

“This is not a major threat for the people in the United States, and this is not something the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about,” he told Newsmax as late as Jan. 21, when the virus began spreading on the West Coast.

Dr. Fauci told “Watters’ World” on Saturday that “it was in January, at a time when the Chinese were saying first that it was only going from an animal to a human and then, when there were human cases, that [they] looked like they were … inefficiently transmitted. It was at that time in mid-January that we made the statement.”

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Gas is $1.15 in south Missouri .
They say it will keep dropping.

A “huge influx” of COVID-19 patients is putting a strain on hospitals in Moscow as Russia begins to tally more casualties from the deadly virus, the Kremlin said Saturday.

Moscow, along with other regions in Russia, has been under lockdown for nearly two weeks to curb the spread of COVID-19. Up through April, Russian officials were claiming to have the situation under control. But the country’s fortunes took a turn for the worse last week.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian media outlet that the situation in Moscow and St. Petersburg is “quite tense because the number of sick people is growing.”

"There is a huge influx of patients. We are seeing hospitals in Moscow working extremely intensely, in heroic, emergency mode."

As of Sunday, Russia has 15,770 confirmed cases with 130 deaths, according to the latest figures from the Johns Hopkins University. Officials have said it remains unclear whether Russia has reached its worst point in the outbreak.

Source: ‘Huge influx’ of COVID-19 patients putting strain on Moscow hospitals, Kremlin says

Mainland China reported 108 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, up from 99 a day earlier and marking the highest number of daily infections in more than five weeks amid continued rise in patients entering the country from overseas.

The National Health Commission said in a statement on Monday that the mainland reported 98 new imported cases, a record high and up from 97 a day earlier, and another 61 new asymptomatic patients.

Total number of confirmed cases in mainland China now stands at 82,160, while the death toll rose by two to 3,341.

China reports 108 new coronavirus cases in mainland vs 99 day earlier

I wonder how many of these new cases are Chinese nationals and Chinese students returning back to China?

Hmmmm! Maybe this is the answer:

More than half of the coronavirus infections reported by China on Sunday stemmed from a Russian flight to Shanghai on April 10, underscoring the possible severity of the outbreak in Russia.



Shanghai’s Municipal Health Commission said 51 of 52 imported cases on Saturday were of Chinese nationals who were diagnosed to have Covid-19 after they landed in the city. The travelers accounted for more than half of 97 imported infections China disclosed on Sunday morning. No other information was provided about the flight.

Ninety-two people linked to the Russian flight have been tracked and quarantined, Shanghai authorities said. It’s not clear why the Chinese nationals were in Russia.

Russia has emerged as a fresh source of imported virus infections for China, which seems to have tamed its own outbreak and has now pivoted toward staving off cases from elsewhere. China has grounded all but one inbound flight per week for foreign airlines in a bid to limit imported cases, but new infections have also found their way back to the country through land borders, especially the one with Russia.

China isn’t alone in reporting imported infections, which have increasingly accounted for an increase in confirmed virus cases for some countries as their governments bring citizens home from abroad to protect them from outbreaks in those nations.

China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province has reported more than 100 imported infections from Russia at its land borders so far this month.

Russia is tightening a lockdown of its capital amid a worsening spread of the virus that is straining local health systems. On Sunday, the country reported the number of new coronavirus cases increased by 31% overnight to 2,186. That took the total to 15,770. Twenty-four deaths related to Covid-19 were reported, double the count in the previous period and bringing the nation’s total to 130.

Source: Half of China's Infections on Saturday Came From an International Flight

Seattle's waterfront areas were swarmed today.

Something is bothering me. It is an anomaly, a very big anomaly.
We now know that COVID-19 is highly contagious. We also know that perhaps as much as 50% of those that become infected are asymptomatic (do not show symptoms).

Beijing, China is the world's most populous capital city, with over 21 million residents. The city only had 587 confirmed cases and 8 deaths.

16.9% of the population in Beijing is over age 60

The numbers just don't add up. It defies logic.

There is a lot about what has been going on that has defied logic.