{"id":50901,"date":"2020-02-02T17:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T22:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50901"},"modified":"2020-02-02T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T22:37:14","slug":"china-censors-top-local-media-outlet-over-claims-beijing-is-underreporting-cases-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50901","title":{"rendered":"China Censors Top Local Media Outlet Over Claims Beijing Is Underreporting Cases, Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/china-censored-caijing-accusing-it-underreporting-cases-and-deaths\">China Censors Top Local Media Outlet Over Claims Beijing Is Underreporting Cases, Deaths<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s be honest, do you think China is reporting the actual coronavirus cases and deaths? After all, Beijing has been the master of falsifying its economic growth figures for years, what makes you think&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/british-airways-ends-all-flights-china-virus-spreads-middle-east\">they&#8217;ll change in the reporting of the deadly virus outbreak?<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/balajis.com\/\">Balaji S. Srinivasan<\/a>, angel investor and entrepreneur, also former CTO of Coinbase,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/balajis\/status\/1223822006132494336?s=20\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0Saturday that a top news organization in China,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=zh-CN&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.is%2FObawP\">Caijing<\/a>, had one of their articles banned by Beijing after it noted Chinese officials were significantly underreporting coronavirus confirmed cases and deaths, especially among the elderly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/balajis\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/422242769747193856\/0ISaDb4__normal.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/balajis\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/balajis\/status\/1223822006132494336\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caijing is one of the most reputable outlets in China. Their article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash\">#coronavirus<\/a> was censored today. It claims significant underreporting of both cases &amp; deaths, especially among the elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here it is:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W3NHvbFfjM\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/archive.is\/ObawP&nbsp;<\/a><br><br>Translation:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7rM69CWPkF\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=zh-CN&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.is%2FObawP&nbsp;\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/balajis\/status\/1223822006132494336\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EPvjnk8WsAAQAC7?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/balajis\/status\/1223822006132494336\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EPvjnk8X0AAG0Xb?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Srinivasan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/balajis\/status\/1223829502301736961?s=20\">said<\/a>, &#8220;If half the claims in this article are true, #nCoV2019 seems to have completely overloaded Wuhan&#8217;s healthcare system. It appears particularly deadly for the elderly. But this 45-year-old had to be anesthetized and intubated in order to breathe.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;In the past two days, he had seen a 45-year-old patient, a family of five, his parents had died of the new coronavirus pneumonia, and his son was infected. The patient&#8217;s condition was very serious. She used high-flow oxygen inhalation and non-invasive mask ventilation, but her blood oxygen saturation was only 50%. Finally, she had to be anesthetized and intubated with ECMO.<\/p><p><strong>&#8220;Before intubation and anesthesia, she watched us prepare, tears kept flowing down, and that fear made people feel very distressed,&#8221; said Shen Jun. There are still many cases like this, &#8220;Our doctors have made a decision Determined to do everything possible to treat all patients,&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong>Caijing wrote.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Srinivasan points out that the Chinese newspaper found hospitals in Wuhan and elsewhere were intentionally recording coronavirus deaths as &#8220;general pneumonia&#8221; to keep the death count low.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Censors Top Local Media Outlet Over Claims Beijing Is Underreporting Cases, Deaths Let&#8217;s be honest, do you think China is reporting the actual coronavirus cases and deaths? After all, Beijing has been the master of falsifying its economic growth figures for years, what makes you think&nbsp;they&#8217;ll change in the reporting of the deadly virus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[2045,8432,120,130,512,1426],"class_list":["post-50901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-beijing","tag-caijing","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-media","tag-misinformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50902,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50901\/revisions\/50902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}