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...Virus Spreads...
...sense of the scope of Beijing's mounting SARS crisis. Instead, they were presented with deceptively uplifting news. The hospital had only two suspected SARS patients on view. Especially encouraging, as those ambulances were meandering around Beijing, it appeared that no medical staff were confirmed to have contracted the virus...
...Virus Spreads...
...dramatic policy shift and a long-awaited sign that Beijing may finally be ready to address SARS as a dire health threat that cannot be contained by a policy of secrecy and prevarication. But fears remain that this move has come far too late?and that the virus is already spreading to China's vast interior, where hospitals are ill-prepared to deal with such a costly and complicated epidemic. "I'm most concerned about the provinces," says the WHO's Bekedam. "[They have] neither the financial resources nor the human resources to deal with SARS...
...Like their big-city counterparts, provincial doctors have also succumbed to political pressure to conceal information about the dangers of the virus. At a secret meeting last Wednesday overheard by a TIME reporter, Dr. Zhang Hanwei, the director of the Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital in Taiyuan, began his speech by berating the 40 or so embattled doctors gathered before him. Other regions afflicted by SARS were reporting only a 4% mortality rate. But Shanxi, then with an official tally of 82 cases and 7 deaths, was reporting an 8.5% death rate. "The government is very unsatisfied with these numbers...