China refused to give WHO officials Covid data that would help find outbreak source

[Hamartia Antidote]

China refused to give WHO officials key Covid data for origin of outbreak

Investigators from the World Health Organisation recently concluded a fact-finding trip to Wuhan that failed to ascertain the beginnings of the pandemic

www.mirror.co.uk

Chinese scientists refused to share key data on Covid-19 that might have helped locate the origin of the deadly virus.

Investigators from the World Health Organisation on a fact-finding trip requested raw data on patient records but were rebuffed by officials.

Disagreements became so tense that they sometimes erupted into shouting matches, it has been reported.

For 27 days in January and February, a team of 14 experts for the WHO led a mission to trace the origins of the pandemic - but failed to find any conclusive answers.

Several allege their Chinese counterparts were frustrated by the team’s persistent questioning and demands for data, reports the New York Times.

Officials in China urged the investigators to embrace the government's narrative about the virus - and not believe reports about the Wuhan wet market or that the virus was started in a lab.


Thea Kølsen Fischer, a Danish epidemiologist on the team, said: “It was my take on the entire mission that it was highly geopolitical.

"Everybody knows how much pressure there is on China to be open to an investigation and also how much blame there might be associated with this.”

Frustrated in their efforts, nonetheless the WHO team compromised with their report on Covid-19.

They praised the Chinese government’s transparency, but pushed for more research about the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019.

The team asked for details about the first patients - and possible ones before that.

“We asked for that on a number of occasions and they gave us some of that, but not necessarily enough to do the sorts of analyses you would do,” said Dominic Dwyer, an Australian microbiologist on the WHO team, referring to the confirmed cases.

Chinese scientists acknowledged they had discovered 92 people hospitalized in Wuhan as early as October 2019 with the Covid-like symptoms of a fever and coughing.

The Chinese experts said they had found no trace of Covid-19 in those people, but the tests were incomplete.

The WHO team is expected to release a full report about its findings in coming weeks.

Dominic Dwyer,



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[vi-va]

Fake news, not worth to debunk.

 

[charene514]

Could very well be true !

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Sharing patient information is illegal. Civil Code Article 1226: Medical organizations and employees thereof must maintain privacy of patients and personal information. Those who share, reveal or publicize personal information or medical records are liable for civil damages.

根据《民法典》第一千二百二十六条的规定，医疗机构及其医务人员应当对患者的隐私和个人信息保密。泄露患者的隐私和个人信息，或者未经患者同意公开其病历资料的，应当承担侵权责任。

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[Hamartia Antidote]

China refused to provide WHO data on early COVID cases - team member

The team requested raw patient data on the 174 cases of COVID-19 that China had identified from the early phase of the outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, but were only provided with a summary.

www.jpost.com

China refused to provide WHO data on early COVID cases - team member

The team requested raw patient data on the 174 cases of COVID-19 that China had identified from the early phase of the outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, but were only provided with a summary.


China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team's investigators said, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began.

The team had requested raw patient data on 174 cases that China had identified from the early phase of the outbreak in the city of Wuhan in December 2019, as well as other cases, but were only provided with a summary, said Dominic Dwyer, an Australian infectious diseases expert who is a member of the team.

Such raw data is known as "line listings," he said, and would typically be anonymised but contain details such as what questions were asked of individual patients, their responses and how their responses were analyzed.

"That's standard practice for an outbreak investigation," he told Reuters on Saturday via video call from Sydney, where he is currently undergoing quarantine.

He said that gaining access to the raw data was especially important since only half of the 174 cases had exposure to the Huanan market, the now-shuttered wholesale seafood center in Wuhan where the virus was initially detected.

"That's why we've persisted to ask for that," Dwyer said. "Why that doesn't happen, I couldn't comment. Whether it's political or time or it's difficult ... But whether there are any other reasons why the data isn't available, I don't know. One would only speculate."

While the Chinese authorities provided a lot of material, he said the issue of access to the raw patient data would be mentioned in the team's final report. "The WHO people certainly felt that they had received much much more data than they had ever received in the previous year. So that in itself is an advance."

A summary of the team's findings could be released as early as next week, the WHO said on Friday.

The probe had been plagued by delay, concern over access and bickering between Beijing and Washington, which accused China of hiding the extent of the initial outbreak and criticized the terms of the visit, under which Chinese experts conducted the first phase of research.

The team, which arrived in China in January and spent four weeks looking into the origins of the outbreak, was limited to visits organized by their Chinese hosts and prevented from contact with community members, due to health restrictions. The first two weeks were spent in hotel quarantine.

China's refusal to hand over raw data on the early COVID-19 cases was reported earlier by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times on Friday.

The WHO did not reply to a request from Reuters for comment. The Chinese foreign ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment but Beijing has previously defended its transparency in handling the outbreak and its cooperation with the WHO mission.

Dwyer said the work within the WHO team was harmonious but that there were "arguments" at times with their Chinese counterparts over the interpretation and significance of the data, which he described as "natural" in such probes.

"We might be having a talk about cold chain and they might be more firm about what the data shows than what we might have been, but that's natural. Whether there's political pressure to have different opinions, I don't know. There may well be, but it's hard to know."

Cold chain refers to the transport and trade of frozen food.

Peter Daszak, a zoologist and another member of the WHO mission, however tweeted on Saturday that he had a different experience as the lead of the mission's animal and environment working group.

"I found trust & openness w/ my China counterparts. We DID get access to critical new data throughout. We DID increase our understanding of likely spillover pathways," he said in response to the New York Times piece.

Daszak did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment.

Beijing has sought to cast doubt on the notion that the coronavirus originated in China, pointing to imported frozen food as a conduit.

On Tuesday, Peter Ben Embarek, who led the WHO delegation, told a news conference that transmission of the virus via frozen food is a possibility, but pointed to market vendors selling frozen animal products including farmed wild animals as a potential pathway that warrants further study.

 

[Feng Leng]

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[qwerrty]

western media = fake news factory

 

[Beast]

LOL.. Typical western news who used donkey old news and try to paint a picture of current situation. Head of WHO just say China is very open on WHO covid-19 investigation in wuhan and now we have people desperate to smear China by backtrack with old news to try prove a point?

US white enslave black in 1850. I shall say the white still enslave black in 2021, right?

 

[Mack Truck]

Another fake UK news. Good thing the whole country is dying from covid.

Are you alright? Do you need help? What a disgusting person...

 

[qwerrty]

LOL.. Typical western news who used donkey old news and try to paint a picture of current situation. Head of WHO just say China is very open on WHO covid-19 investigation in wuhan and now we have people desperate to smear China by backtrack with old news to try prove a point?

US white enslave black in 1850. I shall say the white still enslave black in 2021, right?

another refute the fake news

nyt caught red-handed

 

[Beast]

another refute the fake news

nyt caught red-handed

Snake behavior from neo con

 

[qwerrty]

Snake behavior from neo con

disgusting. that's why their countries keep going round and round with the virus. they just believe what they want to believe. fu<k them science & scientists




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[SuperStar20]

Why is china doing so much drama to share information related to Covid.

 

[Nan Yang]

Why is china doing so much drama to share information related to Covid.

China is doing just fine.

LOL. WHO announced Wuhan is not the source of Covid and the Wuhan lab leak is not likely.
These are the two big elephants in the room and the two conspiracy stories by Trump and Pompeo.

China stopped the virus and is now cleared by an international body.

Heaven is truly smiling at China.

 

[Globenim]

The best part is the US state propaganda mouthpieces keep quotemining and spinning statements of researchers who already openly called bullshit on these US state propaganda fake reports about China echoed trough US and US puppet regime controlled media and even double down quotemining and spinning even the public rejection of US state propaganda by the very researchers US state propaganda claims to cite just to expand on their blatant lies brainwashing those poor indoctrinated and ignorant Americans who will mostly never know any better.

They and their army of paid shills must be really butthurt about the results when they are even burning bridges with their own researchers now.