Iran's vice president has contracted coronavirus, state media says

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, has contracted the coronavirus, CBS reported Thursday, citing Iranian state media.

Ebtekar, who served as an English-language spokesperson for Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis after Iranian protesters seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, is reportedly exhibiting only mild symptoms and has not been hospitalized. Ebtekar is the fourth Iranian senior official to contract it.

The nation has seen one of the highest number of coronavirus cases both in the Middle East and in any country outside China, with 254 confirmed cases nationwide and at least 26 deaths. Earlier this week, Tehran announced Iraj Harirchi, the top Iranian official responsible for dealing with the virus, had also contracted it.

The majority of Iranian cases are concentrated in the city of Qom, a holy city south of Tehran, but last week health ministry official Minou Mohrez said “It’s possible that it exists in all cities in Iran.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/484943-irans-vice-president-has-contracted-coronavirus-state-media-says

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Headline seems a bit misleading

Not VP of the entire country

[brooklynite]

2. Vice-President (Noun): an official or executive ranking below and deputizing for a president.

The fact that the US has only one doesn't mean other countries need to.

[blugbox]

3. "Iran's Vice President" makes it sound like our equivalent V.P.

The Hill has the misleading headline, not you.

And I am of the opinion that it is a misleading headline.

[Recursion]

4. I suppose "Iranian Vice President" would be slightly clearer

Though I have to say as written the headline doesn't bother me

[Polybius]

8. Or perhaps "One of Iran's 12 VP's"

Not that it matters much.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. You read the headline and think that the VP of Iran is sick with the Coronovirus

You read the article and you find out it's a lower-level official. Doesn't make it totally inaccurate by any means, but I think that you do tend to read it a little differently looking at just the headline IMHO. Not a big deal overall though.

[jpak]

6. If those numbers are accurate - that is a 10% mortality rate

Not.

Good.

[dewsgirl]

9. I certainly think it's higher than the overall 2% they

keep pushing. It seems to be different in different areas, likely due to the fact many aren't being honest/aren't testing consistently.

[htuttle]

11. Reporting only 254 confirmed cases in Iran is bogus

There's not even a good test for it yet. I'm sure there are FAR more than 254 people in Iran with COVID-19 at this point, so the mortality rate can't be determined there.

[IronLionZion]

7. Iran has 12 VPs

for DUers who didn't know. So this is more like a US cabinet member

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_Iran

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. My eyes first saw the vice president part not Iran

I wonder how quickly things would change if pence caught it?

[Marcuse]

12. Masoumeh Ebtekar