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RFA's employers with the coordinated follow-up. Birx throws in some additional lies. Infectious disease epidemiologists, analyzing data from China, have been warning for some time about the transmissibility and severity of sars-cov-2.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says
As an example, the following is from a study that looked at potential transmissibility (R0) estimates from preprints & peer-reviewed articles from *January*. To pretend like no one had any idea until recently bc of Chinese data cover-ups is ludicrous.
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X(20)30113-3.pdf
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X(20)30113-3.pdf
This thread is a good supplement to the above. Early estimates of key epi parameters using Chinese data are consistent with subsequent analyses using data from other countries. https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1246132971943362561
