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The WHO must be just a cog in the CCP propaganda machine then.
Paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/health/china-lessons-aylward.html
Donald McNeil´s reporting has been linked to on this thread before. Here´s a longer piece, published two weeks ago, on Aylward´s findings:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/health/coronavirus-china-aylward.html?searchResultPosition=3
To sum it all up, the key is enormous testing and tracking capabilities and fever clinics (complete with CT machines) so that new outbreaks are quickly found and the infected isolated away from their homes. Oh, and hospitals that have more kit than Swiss clinics do.
Regarding propaganda claims:
"I know there’s suspicion, but at every testing clinic we went to, people would say, “It’s not like it was three weeks ago.”"
"I didn’t see anything that suggested manipulation of numbers. "
"Journalists also say, “Well, they’re only acting out of fear of the government,” as if it’s some evil fire-breathing regime that eats babies. I talked to lots of people outside the system — in hotels, on trains, in the streets at night.
They’re mobilized, like in a war, and it’s fear of the virus that was driving them. They really saw themselves as on the front lines of protecting the rest of China. And the world."