Five Republican senators led by Marco Rubio on Friday asked President Joe Biden's administration to ban travel between the United States and China after a spike in Chinese respiratory illness cases.
Well, the WHO wants information because the pneumonia that children are getting there isn’t the result of COVID and the usual other culprits. It’s a bad idea to stop travel and this is definitely just politics, but I don’t think it’s fair to say we have no evidence of a new illness. WHO thinks something is weird.
The cause is known. It’s mycoplasma pneumoniae, a common bacterial infection that typically affects younger children. The WHO doesn’t think something is weird.
Well, the WHO wants information because the pneumonia that children are getting there isn’t the result of COVID and the usual other culprits. It’s a bad idea to stop travel and this is definitely just politics, but I don’t think it’s fair to say we have no evidence of a new illness. WHO thinks something is weird.
The cause is known. It’s mycoplasma pneumoniae, a common bacterial infection that typically affects younger children. The WHO doesn’t think something is weird.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/what-do-we-know-about-chinas-respiratory-illness-surge-2023-12-01/