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How the New Outbreak in China Is Hitting Clinics Elsewhere
The social media images from China are a heart-rending déjà vu with photos of young children connected to intravenous lines receiving fluids from overcrowded hospital waiting rooms.
For a world still reeling from the recent coronavirus pandemic, news from China about a sudden rise in respiratory ailments has prompted understandable concern.
Just 4 years ago, a mysterious respiratory illness started to spread in China (SARS-CoV-2), and a lack of transparency by government officials cost other countries needed time to prepare.
In Beijing, worried parents seeking help for their children are having to wait at least a day, even for emergency care. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 3500 cases of respiratory infection admitted to the Children’s Hospital.
In Liaoning Province, almost 500 miles away from Beijing, there are more reports of sick children overwhelming hospitals.
Chinese media blame the outbreak on mycoplasma pneumonia, sometimes called walking pneumonia, which is a bacterial infection that usually causes upper respiratory tract symptoms but can also prompt more serious lung issues and pneumonia.
In the United States, the weekly percent of emergency department visits for children with diagnosed pneumonia was about 2% as of the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report November 25, 2023, which is average for this time of year, although the agency is already reporting a slight increase above typical levels for children aged 5-17 years.
- Just in time for the election cycle.MondoMorphic
- very wrinkly hands for a young childkingsteven
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- Nairn-1
We're doomed.
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- When people say China hasn't been expansionist it ignores the entire history...
https://i.imgur.com/…yuekit - Not that they are better or worse than any other large country but Musk is clearly unwilling to say anything negative.yuekit
- Notice how he talks about the invasion of Taiwan as something that will just inevitably happen, doesn't say it's bad.yuekit
- When people say China hasn't been expansionist it ignores the entire history...
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Chinese drug firms backed by global banks found using leopards and pangolins parts.
Three top Chinese pharmaceutical companies, which are backed by top global banks, are using endangered animal parts in their medicines, according to an investigation by an environmental protection group.
In a Monday report, the Environmental Investigation Agency UK (EIA) said it had found 72 companies licensed by China’s drug regulator to be using body parts of leopards and pangolins, two species that face the threat of extinction.
Among them are three publicly listed traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) giants: Beijing Tong Ren Tang, Tianjin Pharmaceutical and Jilin Aodong Medicine.
The EIA said it had found at least nine “products stated to contain leopard and/ or pangolin” that were manufactured by the firms.
Some of the companies identified also sell products that contain parts of tigers and rhinos, which would contradict “China’s own stated position that it does not allow use of tiger bone and rhino horn in medicine,” the organization said.
“This is use on an effectively industrial scale which can only push these species ever closer to extinction,” Avinash Basker, an EIA legal and policy specialist, said in a separate statement.
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lol
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disappointment of the day