If you're talking about information that could be used to build a case against the Chinese government, they are certainly restricting that information. A half dozen countries are now attempting to shift the blame for the virus to China. However, data needed by medical researchers and doctors in China, South Korea, the US, and a number of other countries, is being exchanged just as it always has been. Whether that will continue is debatable with the US attacks on China.
China provided the virus genome which was needed for testing in early January only days after they announced that they had a major outbreak of an unknown disease. By the middle of January China was warning the world of the danger the virus posed. However, most the world including the US ignored the warning just as they have ignored China's warning of their lack of preparation for a pandemic.
Donald Trump along with a number countries were praising China in January for it's work fighting the virus and sharing information. In fact, many countries including the US were offering help to China as the virus spread rapidly in Wuhan.
Move the clock ahead 2 months. China, through brute force was bringing the epidemic under control and bragging to the world of how successful they were. This was when the epidemic was totally out of control in the US and a number of European countries. Suddenly China became the enemy, not just the source of the virus but the nation that was responsible for the pandemic and the lack of national and international response. Politically, it provided a nice cover for US and other countries that were totally unprepared. The failure of the US to mount any effective response was now China's responsibility.
Seeking Covid-19 answers, U.S. doctors turn to colleagues in China - STAT
Who released this virus on the world? How are they NOT responsible?
Coronavirus: China’s 17 day delay in releasing genome sequence of COVID-19
Health authorities have issued a dire warning about coronavirus as it continues to spread rapidly across China and the world.
Staff writers and wires
news.com.au FEBRUARY 13, 2020 7:23AM
17 DAY DELAY
There was a 17 day delay in the release of critical information about coronavirus during the crucial early stages of the outbreak, it’s been revealed.
A group of scientists is now calling for changes in the way new viruses are reported.
In a letter to medical journal
The Lancet, the scientists said one of the important lessons from the outbreak was a delay in releasing information.
“The Chinese authorities ruled out SARS and MERS, as well as a few other non-coronaviruses, on January 5, and confirmed a novel coronavirus as a potential cause on January 9,” they said in the Lancet.
“However, the genome sequence — crucial for rapid development of diagnostics needed in an outbreak response — was not released until January 12, 2020 — 17 days after the preliminary sequence data were obtained.”
The World Health Organisation is warning the opportunity to stem the international spread of the coronavirus outbreak is fading
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Published February 1, 2020
China slams Trump's coronavirus travel limits: 'Not a gesture of goodwill'
By Joe McDonald, Sam McNeil
| Associated Press
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On Friday, the United States declared a public health emergency and President Donald Trump and an order barring entry to foreign nationals, other than immediate family of American citizens and permanent residents, who visited China within the last 14 days, which scientists say is the virus’s longest incubation period.
'Unfriendly comments'
China criticized the U.S. controls, which it said contradicted the WHO’s appeal to avoid travel bans, and “unfriendly comments” that Beijing was failing to cooperate.
“Just as the WHO recommended against travel restrictions, the U.S. rushed to go in the opposite way. Certainly not a gesture of goodwill,” said foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying.
WHO Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva that despite the emergency declaration, there is “no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade.”
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China slams Trump's coronavirus travel limits: 'Not a gesture of goodwill'
China slams Trump's coronavirus travel limits: 'Not a gesture of goodwill'
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Published March 18, 2020
WHO haunted by January tweet saying China found no human transmission of coronavirus
The World Health Organization (WHO) is now haunted by a tweet it sent earlier this year when it cited Chinese health officials who claimed there had been no human transmissions of the novel
coronavirus within the country yet.
The Jan. 14 tweet came less than two months before WHO
declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic.
"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel
#coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in
#Wuhan,
#China," the organization had said.
It also relied on information from Chinese health authorities who have been accused of obscuring facts and figures during the course of the outbreak.
WHO haunted by January tweet saying China found no human transmission of coronavirus
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