The data showed an increase in hospital admissions of children due to diseases including bacterial infection, RSV, influenza and common cold viruses since October.

Leading scientists said the situation warranted close monitoring, but were not convinced the spike signalled the start of a new global outbreak.

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The standard wording of the alert echoed the first-ever notice about what would become COVID-19, sent on December 30, 2019: “Undiagnosed pneumonia — China (Hubei).”

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That is entirely not untrue. This is pure anti-china propaganda that is very easily verifiable.

    The earliest examples of COVID were found by Zhang Jixian and the hospital alerted in 27th of December. This was communicated to the WHO the 31st of December after a larger amount of cases were identified (Source: official WHO publication). The timeline is abundantly clear

    There are some traces of COVID that date back to November 2019 in China, but that is also true in Europe so that’s hardly a proof of Chinese maliciousness.

    We were told lies about how China didn’t warn us because our politicians – I’m saying that as an European but that’s true of the US as well – ostensibly refused to hear China’s warnings for weeks before we started seeing cases skyrocket. So their choice was to either take responsibility, or blame someone else. China is both the origin country of the disease and a political enemy, so it was the easiest target.