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Mr Super Spreader. A Sensible Idea.
Was this a sensible disclosure and in the 'public interest'?
I appreciate that health authorities have to try and track all contacts with this gentleman since he left Singapore but what good does it do him to identify him at this stage of the contagion.
Bearing in mind that members of the Chinese community have been ostracised widely and suddenly become victims of hate crime as a result of Coronavirus should this person be outed?
Unless he consented I would have thought he was entitled to patient confidentiality.
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I appreciate that health authorities have to try and track all contacts with this gentleman since he left Singapore but what good does it do him to identify him at this stage of the contagion.
Bearing in mind that members of the Chinese community have been ostracised widely and suddenly become victims of hate crime as a result of Coronavirus should this person be outed?
Unless he consented I would have thought he was entitled to patient confidentiality.
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the rules of confidentiality are pretty strict for medical staff - even if they have outed themselves they still have to give permission for a doctor to yak
so I am certain he did it himself and / or gave permission. He looks pretty happy about it
I think it may partially have been to draw the fire from the chinese ethnics - I thought hem hem the returning business man had been asian
I wondered if the raised mortality in China was because of genetic susceptibility
the mortality is meant to rise during an epidemic and this one it has been falling - as one of the 'experts; said on tv today - the virus is running out of people to infect in china
so I am certain he did it himself and / or gave permission. He looks pretty happy about it
I think it may partially have been to draw the fire from the chinese ethnics - I thought hem hem the returning business man had been asian
I wondered if the raised mortality in China was because of genetic susceptibility
the mortality is meant to rise during an epidemic and this one it has been falling - as one of the 'experts; said on tv today - the virus is running out of people to infect in china
It would appear that the authorities in China,as expected, have been spreading disinformation. The death toll is 80 times the so called official figures. That is nearly 25,500.
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Or not. Your link says that numerous 'grabs' have shown differing numbers, retro. Of course, the death toll of 80,000+ could be true. Then again, it may be false. That's what I gleaned from your link. I can't honestly think of a reason why the Chinese would release figures well below the actual number of deaths.
Or not. Your link says that numerous 'grabs' have shown differing numbers, retro. Of course, the death toll of 80,000+ could be true. Then again, it may be false. That's what I gleaned from your link. I can't honestly think of a reason why the Chinese would release figures well below the actual number of deaths.
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