Stinkman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:03 am Today's update of new COVID-19 cases from China was unusually late, and now we know why. Wow.

15,000 new cases were just now reported for Feb. 12th. Most new cases are from Hubei Province. Up to over 60k total. That is near 5 times the average daily reported number to date. 250 new reported deaths, taking the new total reported deaths to 1360. There is almost always a second daily update in a few hours from now. We'll see if that shows another massive jump. Either way, it must be noted that 45,000 of those 60,000 cases are reported as "mild". Still, that means 16% of all reported cases are classified as "serious", meaning requiring hospitalization.

Maybe not really a sudden spike in new cases in the past 24 hours, but a backlog of older test results probably just came in from their multiple labs performing all the actual testing of collected samples? Not sure. Or maybe they have switched to "clinical diagnosis" instead of test kits for the people only showing mild symptoms.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The commission noted that it had begun including cases diagnosed through new clinical methods from Thursday.

You may know that there has been a lot of debate in the media in recent days about a change in the way of counting figures by the National Health Commission.

There was a suggestion that from 7 February, people who had tested positive but showed no symptoms, were not counted as confirmed cases. It has been very difficult to pin down the exact changes, and I’ll try to do that today.

But from my reading, it’s likely that this huge jump in new confirmed cases reflects an adjustment of calculations, rather than a massively steep increase in actual new cases. I’ll keep updating you on this as we get more information on it.

AzalKH wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:51 am New clinical test methods are being included now, explaining the huge jump in cases. However the death rate increase isn't related to that, so it is a true increase.

Kammekor wrote: 1. official it’s not airborne yet.

Anyway, it’s interesting to see how it evolves.

Stinkman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:03 am Today's update of new COVID-19 cases from China was unusually late, and now we know why. Wow.

15,000 new cases were just now reported for Feb. 12th. Most new cases are from Hubei Province. Up to over 60k total. That is near 5 times the average daily reported number to date. 250 new reported deaths, taking the new total reported deaths to 1360. There is almost always a second daily update in a few hours from now. We'll see if that shows another massive jump. Either way, it must be noted that 45,000 of those 60,000 cases are reported as "mild". Still, that means 16% of all reported cases are classified as "serious", meaning requiring hospitalization.

Maybe not really a sudden spike in new cases in the past 24 hours, but a backlog of older test results probably just came in from their multiple labs performing all the actual testing of collected samples? Not sure. Or maybe they have switched to "clinical diagnosis" instead of test kits for the people only showing mild symptoms.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/