USE the words ‘China’, ‘respiratory’, ‘virus’ and ‘unknown’ in the same sentence and you will soon get people’s attention. That is just what has happened and, of course, our old friend Global Health Now was on hand to convey the news in its usual alarmist tones.
Its lead article on Monday was headed: China’s Respiratory Illnesses Raise Concerns. This rekindled ‘pandemic fears’ amongst ‘worrisome reports about respiratory illnesses’ emerging from China. It was enough to alarm the WHO, so we should consider ourselves lucky that we are not masked up, locked down and queueing for vaccines again
