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    Wuhan Flu - March Week 1 - News and Updates

    www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/01/who-chief-on-coronavirus-global-markets-should-calm-down-see-reality.html

    I really did try to restrain myself from commenting further about the WHO response, but while it’s not calling a pandemic (because it “doesn’t use” that word), is it within it’s purview to ask markets to calm down?

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    https://twitter.com/profcarroll/stat...156488704?s=20

    27.5 million uninsured people in the US. What could possibly go wrong?
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    Quote Originally Posted by kimwy66:
    https://twitter.com/profcarroll/stat...156488704?s=20

    27.5 million uninsured people in the US. What could possibly go wrong?
    How on earth did they get to over USD 3,000 for a test!!??!!

    FFS I spent 3 days in ICU and three days in a private room with two doctors on call 24 hours, all medicine (and there was a lot of it), tests including an echocardiogram... all for USD 1,400. I know things are cheaper here but that is just insane.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AsianXpat0:
    www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/01/who-chief-on-coronavirus-global-markets-should-calm-down-see-reality.html

    I really did try to restrain myself from commenting further about the WHO response, but while it’s not calling a pandemic (because it “doesn’t use” that word), is it within it’s purview to ask markets to calm down?
    There is nothing preventing them from using the word. WHO should come clean and just call it for what it is.

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    South Korea ... taking it one step further...

    https://twitter.com/Rover829/status/1234305538541916160


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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    South Korea ... taking it one step further...

    https://twitter.com/Rover829/status/1234305538541916160
    I'm getting different numbers in the press of how big this cult is. Just how big is it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    How on earth did they get to over USD 3,000 for a test!!??!!

    FFS I spent 3 days in ICU and three days in a private room with two doctors on call 24 hours, all medicine (and there was a lot of it), tests including an echocardiogram... all for USD 1,400. I know things are cheaper here but that is just insane.
    Those evacuees will probably get billed too. Probably going to be a lot more than a couple thousands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Miaofromcali:
    Those evacuees will probably get billed too. Probably going to be a lot more than a couple thousands.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/u...cal-bills.html

    A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman declined to comment on whether it would pay the bills of patients kept in mandatory isolation.

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    Meanwhile in “it never rains in China but when it does it pours”
    https://twitter.com/rover829/status/...480621569?s=21

    And a lack of coordination between government departments in HK
    https://twitter.com/rthk_enews/statu...497531392?s=21


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