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...government number of 40), investigators were not allowed access to medical records, and whistle-blowers were offering embarrassing accounts of official cover-ups to the foreign press. China's new leadership, led by President Hu Jintao, suddenly found itself entangled in an international credibility crisis. Finally, months after the outbreak began, the Politburo Standing Committee, the country's top ruling body, ordered an end to the obfuscation: late last week, the committee demanded "accurate, timely and honest reporting of the SARS situation" from cadres throughout the country. With it came a warning: local and provincial officials "will be held accountable...
...Assignment: The SARS Outbreak...
...When the crisis began, Beijing's top concern was ensuring economic growth. Propaganda departments barred the media from covering the outbreak, worried that word of a mysterious new disease spreading on the mainland would crush commerce. In his first comments on the disease?coming five months after the initial signs of the illness?Minister of Health Zhang Wenkang on April 3 scoffed at the WHO's warnings to avoid travel in southern China, believed to be the source of SARS. "It is perfectly safe to come to China to work, travel and hold business meetings," he insisted...
...Across China's capital last week, similar shadow games were taking place to obscure the depth of Beijing's SARS outbreak. A doctor at the People's Liberation Army No. 309 Hospital told TIME that 46 confirmed SARS patients were dragged out of their beds last Tuesday and moved to the Zihuachun Hotel on the hospital grounds?just before the WHO team visited. At the People's Liberation Army No. 302 Hospital, where two infectious wards had previously been filled to capacity, only a handful of patients remained in their beds while WHO team members met with hospital officials. Throughout...
...obvious next step for the show’s producers. FM’s confidential sources high within the show’s internal party structure partly refute this claim, however, alleging that only after much heated debate did a lesbian kiss barely edge out an Ebola outbreak as the show’s next periodic extraordinary dramatic twist...