Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Rabidcolombian]

Chink spy has been arrested for selling zsecret research and trying to steal American talent to go to grorious mainwand of China. CHINA NUMBA WON

Spies??? Steal??? NU WAY

 

[LetThemEatCake]

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Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China Related Cases
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/...hinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china (http://archive.vn/EVsfN)


BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China.

Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this morning and charged by criminal complaint with one count of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement. Lieber will appear this afternoon before Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler in federal court in Boston.

Yanqing Ye, 29, a Chinese national, was charged in an indictment today with one count each of visa fraud, making false statements, acting as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy. Ye is currently in China.

Zaosong Zheng, 30, a Chinese national, was arrested on Dec. 10, 2019, at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to smuggle 21 vials of biological research to China. On Jan. 21, 2020, Zheng was indicted on one count of smuggling goods from the United States and one count of making false, fictitious or fraudulent statements. He has been detained since Dec. 30, 2019.

Dr. Charles Lieber

According to court documents, since 2008, Dr. Lieber who has served as the Principal Investigator of the Lieber Research Group at Harvard University, which specialized in the area of nanoscience, has received more than $15,000,000 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DOD). These grants require the disclosure of significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities. Unbeknownst to Harvard University, beginning in 2011, Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017. China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese Talent recruitment plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security. These talent programs seek to lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China and reward individuals for stealing proprietary information. Under the terms of Lieber’s three-year Thousand Talents contract, WUT paid Lieber $50,000 USD per month, living expenses of up to 1,000,000 Chinese Yuan (approximately $158,000 USD at the time) and awarded him more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at WUT. In return, Lieber was obligated to work for WUT “not less than nine months a year” by “declaring international cooperation projects, cultivating young teachers and Ph.D. students, organizing international conference, applying for patents and publishing articles in the name of” WUT.

The complaint alleges that in 2018 and 2019, Lieber lied about his involvement in the Thousand Talents Plan and affiliation with WUT. On or about, April 24, 2018, during an interview with investigators, Lieber stated that he was never asked to participate in the Thousand Talents Program, but he “wasn’t sure” how China categorized him. In November 2018, NIH inquired of Harvard whether Lieber had failed to disclose his then-suspected relationship with WUT and China’s Thousand Talents Plan. Lieber caused Harvard to falsely tell NIH that Lieber “had no formal association with WUT” after 2012, that “WUT continued to falsely exaggerate” his involvement with WUT in subsequent years, and that Lieber “is not and has never been a participant in” China’s Thousand Talents Plan.

Yanqing Ye

According to the indictment, Ye is a Lieutenant of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the armed forces of the People’s Republic of China and member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On her J-1 visa application, Ye falsely identified herself as a “student” and lied about her ongoing military service at the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), a top military academy directed by the CCP. It is further alleged that while studying at Boston University’s (BU) Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering from October 2017 to April 2019, Ye continued to work as a PLA Lieutenant completing numerous assignments from PLA officers such as conducting research, assessing U.S. military websites and sending U.S. documents and information to China.

According to court documents, on April 20, 2019, federal officers interviewed Ye at Boston’s Logan International Airport. During the interview, it is alleged that Ye falsely claimed that she had minimal contact with two NUDT professors who were high-ranking PLA officers. However, a search of Ye’s electronic devices demonstrated that at the direction of one NUDT professor, who was a PLA Colonel, Ye had accessed U.S. military websites, researched U.S. military projects and compiled information for the PLA on two U.S. scientists with expertise in robotics and computer science. Furthermore, a review of a WeChat conversation revealed that Ye and the other PLA official from NUDT were collaborating on a research paper about a risk assessment model designed to decipher data for military applications. During the interview, Ye admitted that she held the rank of Lieutenant in the PLA and admitted she was a member of the CCP.

Zaosong Zheng

In August 2018, Zheng entered the United States on a J-1 visa and conducted cancer-cell research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from Sept. 4, 2018, to Dec. 9, 2019. It is alleged that on Dec. 9, 2019, Zheng stole 21 vials of biological research and attempted to smuggle them out of the United States aboard a flight destined for China. Federal officers at Logan Airport discovered the vials hidden in a sock inside one of Zheng’s bags, and not properly packaged. It is alleged that initially, Zheng lied to officers about the contents of his luggage, but later admitted he had stolen the vials from a lab at Beth Israel. Zheng stated that he intended to bring the vials to China to use them to conduct research in his own laboratory and publish the results under his own name.

The charge of making false, fictitious and fraudulent statements provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charge of visa fraud provides for a sentence of up to 10years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charge of acting as an agent of a foreign government provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charge of conspiracy provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charge of smuggling goods from the United States provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling; John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division; Michael Denning, Director of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Boston Field Office; Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Special Agent in Charge of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Northeast Field Office; Philip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General; and William Higgins, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Export Enforcement, Boston Field Office made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorneys B. Stephanie Siegmann, Jason Casey and Benjamin Tolkoff of Lelling’s National Security Unit are prosecuting these cases with the assistance of Trial Attorneys William Mackie and Davie Aaron of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.

These case are part of the Department of Justice’s China Initiative, which reflects the strategic priority of countering Chinese national security threats and reinforces the President’s overall national security strategy. In addition to identifying and prosecuting those engaged in trade secret theft, hacking and economic espionage, the initiative will increase efforts to protect our critical infrastructure against external threats including foreign direct investment, supply chain threats and the foreign agents seeking to influence the American public and policymakers without proper registration.

The details contained in the charging documents are allegations. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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Fucking hell. The stolen bio samples in his sock guy is somewhere between appalling and hilarious. It's all just more proof you cannot trust PRC people in any capacity. All spying and thieving from the host country without a care. Their entire economy is built on stolen IPs.

 

[Disheveled Human]

While Australia confirmed a level 3 pathogen rating for this corona virus, which is really good news, we are not entirely out of the woods yet. The first wave of the spanish flu was less deadly then the second wave that killed even more people. It's really gonna depend on how, if or when this virus mutates will it become more deadly and contagious or less.

 

[Stoneheart]

While Australia confirmed a level 3 pathogen rating for this corona virus

Thats not something unusual for a Pathogen.

 

[Arctic Fox]

While Australia confirmed a level 3 pathogen rating for this corona virus, which is really good news, we are not entirely out of the woods yet. The first wave of the spanish flu was less deadly then the second wave that killed even more people. It's really gonna depend on how, if or when this virus mutates will it become more deadly and contagious or less.

I more worried about panicking tards trying to swarm my home town. "It's such a small town! It'll be safe, plenty of food!"

Those retards are more dangerous than any disease. There's plenty of ground out here, but digging graves by hand would be a pain in the ass. Can't be fucking my back up.

 

[Ivan Shatov]

Fucking hell. The stolen bio samples in his sock guy is somewhere between appalling and hilarious. It's all just more proof you cannot trust PRC people in any capacity. All spying and thieving from the host country without a care. Their entire economy is built on stolen IPs.

Dude, spend a day at Duke University.

They give away free passports to anyone in the Physics department. People take them up on it for "research grants," which mostly involve opening their laptops.

 

[kcbbq]

While Australia confirmed a level 3 pathogen rating for this corona virus, which is really good news, we are not entirely out of the woods yet. The first wave of the spanish flu was less deadly then the second wave that killed even more people. It's really gonna depend on how, if or when this virus mutates will it become more deadly and contagious or less.

Or we get lucky and nature does the work and you get a weaker virus that creates a natural vaccine, like cowpox. The world does amazing things sometimes, like handing you everything you need to eradicate smallpox.

Not that I advocate sitting around waiting for nature to accidentally work, but it isn't all bad when it does happen.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

wow it's almost like those treatable illnesses are shit like heart disease and diabetes and not an airborne virus that easily shuts down entire airports and kills people with golden perfect health or something

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This is shit relativism as in "Capitalism kills more people than Socialism". These people shouldn't be allowed to make analogies.

It probably has to do with being used to nature trying to kill them.

They're avenging the koalas that got found in those cages to be eaten.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Australian lab first outside of China to re-create coronavirus, helping vaccine push.

In a major breakthrough in the global fight against coronavirus, scientists in Australia have developed a lab-grown version of the disease.

Spoiler: Australia Numba WUN!

Described as a "game-changer" which will help scientists determine whether a future vaccine is effective, experts at Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity on Tuesday became the world's first scientific lab outside of China to re-create the virus.

They will now share it with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Europe, which will in turn share it with labs worldwide — including one from Queensland — involved in the worldwide race to develop a vaccine.

The team of scientists grew the virus from a patient who had been infected since Friday.

The ABC was in the lab the moment scientists discovered they had successfully grown the virus, with Mike Catton, the co-deputy director of the Doherty Institute, confirming it with three words.

"We got it," he said. "Fantastic."

PHOTO: Mike Catton said the discovery was "vitally important". (ABC News: Loretta Florance)


Dr Catton told the ABC the discovery was "vitally important" and would become a critical part of the tool kit to show if vaccines work, with scientists able to test any potential vaccine against a lab-grown version of the disease.

It will also enable researchers to develop a test to identify people who might be infected with the virus, even before they show any symptoms.

Right now in Australia, patients with initial coronavirus symptoms undergo testing in hospital, with samples sent to the Doherty Institute, the only lab in Australia that can test samples a second time and give a 100 per cent answer about whether someone is infected or not.

But this could all change following Tuesday's discovery.

Who's at risk from coronavirus, and how does it spread?

As the number of confirmed cases of deadly coronavirus in Australia continues to grow, experts are beginning to get a greater understanding of the disease and its impact.


Doherty Institute lead scientist Julian Druce, who was there with Dr Catton at the moment of discovery, described it as a significant development in the global understanding of the virus, and for the response to it.

"This will be a game-changer for other labs within Australia," Dr Druce said.

Growing the virus will also help experts understand more about how coronavirus behaves.

The Doherty Institute is the second lab in the world to re-create the disease. A lab in China was the first, but did not share its discovery with the WHO.

However, the same lab released images of the genetic sequence of the disease, which helped scientists at the Doherty Institute re-create it.

Dr Druce said scientists at the institute had been working hard to understand more about the illness, which has already claimed at least 106 lives in China and infected another 4,200 people worldwide.

"It's been 10-12 hour days, 2:00am finishes; so it's been pretty full-on," he said.

"We've designed and planned for an exercise like this for many years. This is what the Doherty Institute was built for.

"And that's really why we're able to get an answer from Friday to today (of) diagnosis, detection, sequencing, and isolation.

PHOTO: Doherty Institute lead scientist Julian Druce celebrating the discovery. (ABC News: Loretta Florance)


Australia 'alert not alarmed'
Dr Catton, who is also the pathologist supervising at The Doherty Institute, said Australian scientific facilities were well-prepared to deal with outbreaks like the coronavirus.

"This virus qualifies as a three-out-of-four, so it's a level three virus and that's based off our understanding of SARS (sudden acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome), which are its close cousins," Dr Catton said.

"It's dangerous, it does kill some people, but it hasn't got the lethality that viruses like Ebola do."

But he said early diagnosis of a disease outbreak like the coronavirus was important because it gave health authorities around the world a better chance of containing its spread or, at the least, its severity.

What is different is how much more mobile the world is, he said.

"I'd still say we're alert but not alarmed," Dr Catton said.

"We shared the view of national health authorities that it was likely there would be cases in Australia. That didn't happen with SARS, which is a similar virus.

"I think it's something like 150 million visits more each year with China to countries like Australia than was true back then."

PHOTO: A woman being tested in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where coronavirus originated from. (Supplied)


At this stage, coronavirus does not have a death rate as high as SARS.

"SARS we know had a death rate — a mortality rate — of about 10 per cent. This [coronavirus] appears to be 3 per cent; my personal opinion is it will turn out to be lower than that," Dr Catton said.

Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said in Australia there has been no known human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus.

"There is no cause for concern in the Australian public, there is no human to human transmission of this virus," he said.

"It's important to note because we had some media [ask] about masks today; there is no need for the Australian public to wear masks."

Those who have the illness are being kept in isolation

All Australian-based patients are in stable conditions.

Australian lab first outside of China to copy coronavirus, helping vaccine push - ABC News

A Melbourne lab becomes the first outside of China to copy the deadly novel coronavirus, enabling researchers to develop screening tests and evaluate whether a future vaccine is effective.

www.abc.net.au

Semper Fi Aussies! Even good enough to share the virus. They're making progress, even if it's not fast.

Edit: I'm feeling everyone on it waiting for it to mutate into another more bastardly strand. I like hearing people make plans for stocking up supplies because of it. Most Floridians like myself have backup supplies already due to hurricane season, so I'm not as worried here due to god snacking us around like the dick shaped state we are every year. I wont go into full panic mode until it decides to become deadlier.

 

[Evilronald]

China can make their own at whatever pace suits them as long as the civilized world can give themselves herd immunity.

See this would be okay if these fucking chinamen weren’t fleeing to other countries knowing they got the virus to receive better treatment here. They love talking about how China numbah 1, but they can’t make products worth shit, steal every bit of technology they can get their hands on, and have a healthcare system that you’re probably more likely to die from than if you just suffered at home instead.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

Dude, spend a day at Duke University.

They give away free passports to anyone in the Physics department. People take them up on it for "research grants," which mostly involve opening their laptops.

Not a US-ian, where is Duke?

 

[kcbbq]

Not a US-ian, where is Duke?

North Carolina.

 

[Computer Boy]

People's Daily, China on Twitter

“The novel #coronavirus outbreak may reach its peak in one week or around 10 days, and then there will be no large-scale increases, says Zhong Nanshan, a renowned Chinese respiratory expert”

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[Distant Stare]

They are not even trying to stop it

 

[AMHOLIO]

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People's Daily, China on Twitter

“The novel #coronavirus outbreak may reach its peak in one week or around 10 days, and then there will be no large-scale increases, says Zhong Nanshan, a renowned Chinese respiratory expert”

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Yeah ok, and the dimensional merge will finally be completed at the end of this year. Wish they explained it more, like if that's only for china or not.

 

[The Real SVP]

To avoid the spread of the flu, it's recommended to wear at least FFP2 masks.

The current recommendations, from whichever German agency wrote the memo I vaguely remember, are: FFP3 for close contact (medical personnel). FFP2 for loose contact (pharmacists, receptionists).

 

[Evilronald]

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They are not even trying to stop it

That’s the flight of US diplomatic personnel and ex-pats I think. They’re supposed to be leaving today to come back to the United States.

 

[Marchesa of the Vast]

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People's Daily, China on Twitter

“The novel #coronavirus outbreak may reach its peak in one week or around 10 days, and then there will be no large-scale increases, says Zhong Nanshan, a renowned Chinese respiratory expert”

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What are they basing this on? Are they acting like the WuFlu can only achieve a certain global level of biomass?

 

[RodgerDodger]

About those Hospitals China is rushing to build...

Report: China Deliberately Spreading Misinformation About Coronavirus To Convince World Health Authorities Outbreak Is Under Control

Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other internet powerhouses are scrambling to control the flood of misinformation surrounding the coronavirus, a new and seemingly deadly disease responsible for dozens of deaths in China now spreading to other parts of the globe. But the Chinese government, it now...

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Report: China Deliberately Spreading Misinformation About Coronavirus To Convince World Health Authorities Outbreak Is Under Control
By Emily Zanotti
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Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other internet powerhouses are scrambling to control the flood of misinformation surrounding the coronavirus, a new and seemingly deadly disease responsible for dozens of deaths in China now spreading to other parts of the globe. But the Chinese government, it now seems, is working against the tide, spreading misinformation of their own to convince foreign governments and world health officials that they’re efficiently handling the outbreak.

The Daily Beast reports that Chinese state media is tweeting photos of roadblocks, checkpoints, and even a hastily constructed hospital to show it’s “on top of things.”
“People’s Daily, owned by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the most-circulated newspaper in China, and Lijian Zhao, a deputy director of information with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, tweeted an image Monday morning of a building they claimed was a hospital in Wuhan, China, the center of the recent coronavirus outbreak,” the Daily Beast reported Tuesday. “The publication and the bureaucrat said enterprising workers in Wuhan had constructed the hospital in just 16 hours.
“In reality, the picture showed an apartment building more than 600 miles away.”
Both Daily Beast and Buzzfeed News were able to identify the building using an image search, but that didn’t stop other Chinese news sources from propagating the government’s claim.

“The Global Times, another party outlet, published a story Monday about the purported construction,” boasting that the hospital was completed in just 16 hours.
“The government wants to use the new hospital to show it is on top of things, but apparently it is not. Even the picture of the hospital is fake,” a researcher with Human Rights Watch told the Daily Beast.

Such obvious misinformation is actually detrimental to the overall public relations push, experts said, because it makes it appear as though China is deliberately trying to mask their response to the disease, which has, so far, killed around a hundred people and infected 2,700 — a significant number, but by no means indicative of a massive outbreak, or even a pandemic.
To put the numbers in perspective, the Centers for Disease control estimates that “so far this season there have been at least 15 million flu illnesses, 140,000 hospitalizations and 8,200 deaths from flu” in the United States alone.

But China struggles with containing disease, as evidenced by the SARS outbreak that took place in 2003, and those suffering from the coronavirus in China may be more likely to die not because the virus is so severe, but because the country lacks the infrastructure needed to handle a health crisis. A government-sponsored misinformation campaign does little to dispell that impression.
For China, the problem may also be internal. Memories of the SARS outbreak are still fresh in China and, the New York Times reported Monday, Chinese social media sites are overrun with commenters criticizing the government for botching the response to coronavirus. The Chinese government, which heavily censors such sites, seems powerless to control the anger, and it’s only a matter of time before distrust foments into more concrete anti-government action.
In the U.S. and Europe, social media sites and news organizations are working to head off disinformation campaigns, by foreign governments and viral media sources. The outbreak was not planned, “bat soup” is not responsible for the disease (though experts speculate Chinese “wet markets,” which sell warm, freshly slaughtered animal, may be breeding grounds for diseases like coronavirus), and coronavirus is not the result of bioweapons experimentation in Wuhan.

Among the “China as usual” levels of disinformation, apparently even those construction pictures are fake. Enterprising Google Earth sleuths matched them to an apartment complex being built 600 miles away.

 

[PicsNGifs]

2 Miami University students tested for coronavirus

Two students at Miami University in Ohio are being tested for a possible infection of the coronavirus, school officials said Tuesday.

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Welp Ohio's fucked