[vmh1928]

Did you read the article? It's a study by researchers at Harvard Medical School. They looked at satellite photos of Wuhan hospitals and saw an increase in parking lot utilization. They also analyzed search terms used on the Biadu search engine for occurrences of "diarrhea" and "cough". They found an increase in both vehicle counts and searches for those terms starting in August. I don't believe the government of China was involved and the same government has called the study absurd. Using the volume of searches for a particular term to detect disease outbreaks even before public health or hospitals are aware is nothing new.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/coronavirus-ma...

[troughway]

Yes, I did the due diligence of reading the article. Did you read the study yesterday regarding the Baidu search and the related HN post? If not, parts of what I'm talking about will seem disconnected. But it's all linked - HN is a terrible place to have a discussion about this topic anyway.