Warning: Chinese hospitals swamped and spreading

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Today's Relevant Update outside the BS chances are slim it will impact the US, yet we see Europe is starting to deal with it.

The WHO does love to lie and keep their CCP paymasters happy. I will never trust anything the WHO puts out again after they spewed Chinese propaganda and got everyone censored for disputing their shilling. 

Note, this bullcrap about immunity debt is bullcrap, the rest of the world had flu and RSV increases but NOT pneumonia. 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...ry-illness

A wave of childhood respiratory illnesses in China is not only overwhelming doctors and hospitals, but it is also prompting questions about the spike itself and how worried the rest of the world should be. 

While a surge of infections was expected in China this winter, the first since COVID-19 restrictions were eased, epidemiologists say it's the high number of pneumonia cases that is concerning. When coronavirus restrictions were lifted in other countries, including the United States, there was a jump in influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, not clusters of pneumonia. 

China has partly blamed the bump on "immunity debt," a concept that claims efforts — such as lockdowns, masking, and social distancing — to avoid infectious diseases for a prolonged period make entire populations more susceptible to illness when those precautions are lifted. It claims that known, not novel, pathogens are driving the increase.

But not everyone is buying it, given the Chinese government's alarming lack of transparency during previous outbreaks, including COVID-19, which turned into a worldwide pandemic that killed almost 7 million people.

[b]How many people are sick in China? [/b]

A lot. Multiple media outlets, both foreign and domestic, have reported that the surge in respiratory illnesses has pushed pediatric units across the country to their limits, although there appears to be no firm total figure available.

The Global Times reported Tuesday that Beijing Children's Hospital was treating more than 9,000 patients a day and had been at full capacity for more than two months.

Outpatient clinics were also getting hammered, with appointments not available for at least seven days.

National Health Commission spokesman Mi Feng advised parents in densely populated areas with long wait times to take their children to smaller medical facilities or general hospitals for pediatric care in an effort to blunt the risk of cross-infection.

[b]Is China hiding anything? 
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China insists it is not and has urged calm, but the country hasn't had the best track record regarding transparency. Chinese authorities tried to cover up the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in Wuhan, China, and led to nearly 7 million deaths worldwide.

Dr. Ashish Jha, the former White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said when it comes to China, "I always think the key is, to quote President Reagan, 'trust but verify.'"

Jha, now the dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, said the U.S. also has measures to verify China's claims. 

Another cause for concern is the WHO itself. The arm of the United Nations responsible for international public health has been criticized for going soft on China over its lack of transparency during the coronavirus outbreak. The organization, which receives funding from Beijing and is often dependent on the ruling Communist Party, repeated misinformation from the Chinese authorities without checking the facts and was slow to declare a public health emergency despite evidence the coronavirus was quickly spreading around the world. It also praised China's top leadership for its help. Since then, the WHO has tried to restore its reputation, though critics have been skeptical.

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Mysterious child pneumonia cases spike in parts of Europe 

https://nypost.com/2023/11/29/news/child...-in-china/

Pneumonia cases in children are unexpectedly surging in the Netherlands at an alarming rate — at the same time as China continues to grapple with a tidal wave of respiratory illnesses threatening to overwhelm its hospitals.

Last week, 80 out of every 100,000 children in the Netherlands between ages 5 and 15 were treated for pneumonia, reported the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL).

Neither NIVEL nor the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands could offer an explanation for the sudden uptick in pneumonia cases among children.


It is unknown whether the worrying health trend seen in Europe is connected to the disturbing rise in mystery respiratory illnesses that were sweeping across parts of China.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese health officials argued that no new or unusual pathogens had been found in the pneumonia cases.

The surge in illnesses has been blamed on children contracting known viruses like the flu, rhinoviruses, the respiratory syncytial virus, and the adenovirus, which they had avoided during the two years of COVID restrictions.

Medical experts in China have suggested that a lack of exposure to common viruses during the protracted lockdown has weakened the population’s immunity.

In the Netherlands, however, COVID-era measures have been gone for a long time, raising questions as to what could have triggered this new surge in childhood pneumonia cases.