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Jay Dong: Revealing the puzzle pieces of COVID-19
There are a couple possibilities. One is false negative to begin with. The false negative can be due to different detection methods… And then the other one could be sample timing. As I mentioned, as the disease progresses, if you check one location [and it's] negative, but [it] may not mean all locations negative. So that's a false negative possibility.
March 12 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: Fighting coronavirus: China experience invaluable to the world
On March 14, President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone with the heads of state of Italy, Korea, Iran and Iraq. Expressing and assuring that China would share its experiential knowledge, medical supplies and technical expertise with each of these countries at their time of need. China has gotten control over coronavirus within just two months of its outbreak. China turned around immediately and responded to support other countries with its practical experiential knowledge.
March 12 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: Global unity needed to beat coronavirus
President Xi Jinping personally inspected Wuhan on March 10, announcing the coronavirus crisis has been met head-on and vowed to win the war against coronavirus. The makeshift hospitals used to quarantine and cure coronavirus patients have been officially closed. Healthcare workers were seen removing their masks in celebration of their control over the coronavirus spread.
March 12 , 2020 -
Zamir Ahmed Awan: Expectations for Afghan peace deal
The expectations were very high regarding the Afghan peace agreement signed on Feb 29 in Doha, the capital of Qatar, between the US officials and Taliban, aiming to end the United States’ longest war, fought in Afghanistan since 2001. The signing ceremony was attended by the representatives from Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, which will pave the way for the US to gradually withdraw its troops in a period of 14 months.
March 05 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Working together to Defeat the Virus
The coronavirus has gone global. With at least 56 countries now affected, the World Health Organization has raised its global risk assessment to “very high” as countries such as South Korea, Iran and Italy experience major outbreaks.
March 05 , 2020 -
Wang Huiyao: Steps needed to minimize outbreak’s impact on economy
Since the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia, both the central and local governments have taken rigorous measures to treat patients and halt the spread of the virus.
March 03 , 2020 -
Laurence Brahm: How lessons from SARS have taught us how to fight coronavirus
My first thought was that this was SARS all over again. I had lived through SARS and knew that China's government leaders had the experience and its people the resolve and wherewithal to overcome this. My first impression was that they would be able to control the coronavirus quickly and end the crisis. However, as the coronavirus spread, I began to suspect that this was something much bigger, more dangerous and requiring huge resources to get control over the situation. China’s challenge was not only to prevent the spread from affecting its own people. It was a global challenge that only China could meet on behalf of the world. As control measures kicked in, I began to reflect back on the years when we were fighting SARS. It was just under two decades ago.
February 22 , 2020
