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...Bush is, for the moment, triumphant. His triumphs may turn out to be historic, but they will require a great deal of work. The openings to North Korea and Iran will require subtle, patient diplomacy, which has not been this Administration's strength. The reconstruction of Iraq will require great skill and sensitivity as well, and events on the ground do not bode well. Many Iraqis moved with unseemly haste from dancing in the streets to stealing everything that wasn't tied down. Worse, their gratitude - which seemed equal parts real and sham - dissolved into griping within days. One wonders...
This is the hospital ward China's Ministry of Health doesn't want you to see. Here in the infectious-diseases section of Beijing's You'an Hospital, dozens and dozens of patients with SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) are crammed into tiny rooms. "Every single one of us in this building is a SARS patient," says a nurse named Zhang, who worked at the People's Liberation Army Hospital No. 301 until 11 days ago when she was diagnosed with the disease and admitted to You'an. "There are at least 100 SARS patients here, if not several hundred...
...might need to renew her prescription. A week later, hospitals in the capital city of Beijing were playing shell games with SARS patients, moving them around the city in ambulances so they wouldn't be discovered by the WHO. Patient numbers were still being underreported (the WHO says there may be 200 cases in Beijing compared with the official 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...
...disease to Hohhot. On March 17, the pair began running high fevers, and when their symptoms had not abated 10 days later, local doctors suspected they might have SARS. But the cases could not be officially confirmed, because one of Beijing's conditions for diagnosing SARS is that the patient had to have been in close contact with another person with the virus. Yet Air China repeatedly denied that there were any SARS suspects on that March 15 flight...
...time a Ministry of Health investigation found on April 11 that there were indeed two SARS victims on that plane, it was too late. One of the flight attendants had infected her husband, her mother, her father and her brother, as well as an elderly male patient in the room across the hall, who in turn infected his wife and two sons. The doctor caring for the stewardess also came down with the virus. But, again, until April 11 none of those cases could be confirmed as SARS, because the link between the stewardesses and the sick airplane passengers hadn...