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Wiki Education assignment: EDT 251 - Research Skills and Strategiesedit
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 8 March 2022 and 13 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Yuxiang Dou (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Jiaoyan Zhou.
Latest comment: 9 months ago5 comments4 people in discussion
This page claims that around 5,000 people have died from COVID-19 in China. This is a death rate that is about .1% the death rate in the United States when Wuhan is the epicenter of the pandemic and is the central transportation hub of China. I know that these are the statistics that the US media reports but people have to use common sense here and question what the actual death rate is. A discussion section should be added to the page. 50.230.201.134 (talk) 17:53, 1 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
It is not physically possible for transmission to be lower in China than it is in the United States, let alone 1,000 times lower. China is more densely populated than the United States and Wuhan is the central transportation hub of China. Furthermore, Wuhan is the epicenter of the pandemic and there were already infections in every single county in the United States in April 2020, which was before newer variants even existed. 50.230.201.134 (talk) 00:41, 2 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
China's zero-COVID policy limited death significantly. As you now see, with the policy lifted in China, cases and deaths are many multiples higher. Footballfan3570 (talk) 22:07, 7 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Spintendo 03:09, 11 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
An editor has started an RfC about whether the announcement by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Energy that they support the COVID-19 lab leak theory should be in the lede of the COVID-19 lab leak theory article. Interested editors are invited to contribute. TarnishedPathtalk 23:45, 3 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The Suspected Cases column says "January 2022" instead of "January 2023", the month the citedsource was published. This was provably a typo. Baccherini (talk) 03:20, 13 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 8 March 2022 and 13 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Yuxiang Dou (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Jiaoyan Zhou.
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Spintendo 03:09, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Done —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 03:36, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
