JUST IN—A new "mystery pneumonia" is tearing through China's schools. Hospitals are reportedly overwhelmed in Beijing and Liaoning with sick children and many classes are already cancelled. Symptoms include inflammation in the lungs and a high fever but without a cough or other symptoms that normally come with respiratory illnesses. The alert came Tuesday via ProMed, a global surveillance system that monitors outbreaks, and it was a ProMed in December of 2019 that first alerted the world to a virus outbreak in China that would later be called COVID. Why is it always China? https://t.co/plfWhVmtJn
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