Mr. Li Qiang is likely to be elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee, according to people close to party leaders.
Others likely to join the Standing Committee include Mr. Xi's chief of staff, Ding Xuexiang, and the top party official in Guangdong province, Li Xi, who once worked as a secretary to a veteran of the Communist revolution with close ties to Mr. Xi's family.
Top party theorist Wang Huning and anticorruption czar Zhao Leji are likely to join Mr. Xi as the only members of the current Standing Committee to get another term, though both are likely to be given new responsibilities, the people said.
The people close to party leaders said Mr. Hu Chunhua may fall short of making the Standing Committee.
【20】Feb 5th, finally US CDC released its own test kits. Not only did it disobey the WHO protocol, but it also banned any other institutions in USA to deliver a test kit on their own. This protocol last till March.
Case in point: FDA rules initially prevented state and commercial labs from developing their own coronavirus diagnostic tests, even if they could develop coronavirus PCR primers on their own. So when the only available test suddenly turned out to be bunk, no one could actually say what primer sets worked.
The CDC and FDA reversed course and lifted this rule on February 29, and commercial and academic labs are now allowed to participate. “Lots of people are working on this, and we’re on the phone all the time with each other comparing notes,” says Jerome. “At least in our hands, it seems that some of the CDC primers work better than others, some of the WHO primer sets look really good, and some from academic groups look great also.”
> So the US CDC must be super confident on the virus - indeed they predicted this "Crimson Contagion"!
【20】Feb 5th, finally US CDC released its own test kits. Not only did it disobey the WHO protocol, but it also banned any other institutions in USA to deliver a test kit on their own. This protocol last till March.
Case in point: FDA rules initially prevented state and commercial labs from developing their own coronavirus diagnostic tests, even if they could develop coronavirus PCR primers on their own. So when the only available test suddenly turned out to be bunk, no one could actually say what primer sets worked.
The CDC and FDA reversed course and lifted this rule on February 29, and commercial and academic labs are now allowed to participate. “Lots of people are working on this, and we’re on the phone all the time with each other comparing notes,” says Jerome. “At least in our hands, it seems that some of the CDC primers work better than others, some of the WHO primer sets look really good, and some from academic groups look great also.”
> So the US CDC must be super confident on the virus - indeed they predicted this "Crimson Contagion"!