China covering up coronavirus deaths

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No surprise there lol

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8177201/amp/China-COVERING-extent-coronavirus-numbers-FAKE-spies-tell-White-House.html

China is COVERING UP full extent of coronavirus including the number of deaths and its numbers are 'FAKE' spies tell White House in classified briefing

• An intelligence report sent to the White House last week concluded coronavirus numbers coming out of China are fake, according to a Wednesday report
• Three U.S. officials claim the intelligence findings conclude China's reporting on coronavirus statistics are intentionally incomplete
• The report comes as skepticism already swirled that China was under-cutting death tolls and confirmed cases in not reporting asymptomatic cases  
• 'The reality is that we could have been better off if China had been more forthcoming,' Mike Pence asserted in a CNN interview Wednesday
• If China's reporting were true, the nation would have less cases and deaths than the U.S., Italy and Spain 
• Coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China in the Hubei province late last year
• Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you see a doctor?

By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 

PUBLISHED: 14:50 EDT, 1 April 2020 | UPDATED: 18:19 EDT, 1 April 2020

 

An intelligence report sent to the White House last week concluded coronavirus numbers coming out of China are fake

China's reporting on coronavirus is intentionally incomplete, three U.S. officials revealed in a Wednesday report, adding its government is underreporting statistics on both the death toll and number of cases.

The intelligence community handed over a classified report to the White House last week, one of the officials told Bloomberg News, and the report concluded that China's numbers are fake.

The coronavirus outbreak originated from Wuhan in the Hubei province of China at the end of 2019 – but China has only publicly reported 82,361 cases and 3,293 deaths as of Wednesday.

This would mean China is less impacted by coronavirus than the U.S., Italy and Spain.

So far, according to a Johns Hopkins University of Medicine world tracker of the virus' impact, there are more than 190,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. and more than 4,000 people have died.

The U.S. has the largest publicly reported outbreak of coronavirus in the world – skyrocketing this week starting over the weekend when deaths doubled from 1,000 to 2,000 in just one day.

'The reality is that we could have been better off if China had been more forthcoming,' Vice President Mike Pence said during an interview with CNN Wednesday afternoon, conceding that the nation has been more honest regarding coronavirus than other diseases over the years.

'I mean the reality is that China's been more transparent with regard to the coronavirus than certainly they were for other infectious diseases over the last 15 years,' Pence, who is heading the White House coronavirus task force, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. 'But what appears evident now is that long before the world learned in December that China was dealing with this, and maybe as much as a month earlier than that, that the outbreak was real in China.'

 

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Three officials claim the intelligence findings conclude China's reporting is intentionally incomplete – as skepticism already swirled that they were under-cutting death tolls and confirmed cases in not reporting asymptomatic cases

Mike Pence brought up China's transparency issue in an interview with CNN Wednesday. 'The reality is that we could have been better off if China had been more forthcoming,' Pence asserted

If China's reporting were true, the nation would have less cases and deaths than the U.S., Italy and Spain – even though the virus originated in Wuhan, China in the Hubei province

'The medical community made -- interpreted the Chinese data as: This was serious, but smaller than anyone expected,' she said at the daily coronavirus press briefing Tuesday evening. 'Because I think probably we were missing a significant amount of the data, now that what we see happened to Italy and see what happened to Spain.'

Speculation arose over China's reporting after its government said earlier this month that there were no new cases in Wuhan, where the pandemic stemmed from, and images of stacks of thousands of urns outside funeral homes in Hubei province showed up.

There have also been questions surrounding China's ever-changing methodology for counting and reporting its coronavirus cases and deaths.

For weeks, the Chinese government did not count asymptomatic individuals, even if they tested positive – and only on Tuesday added more than 1,5000 asymptomatic cases to its total.

While skepticism continues to swirl over China's reporting methods, there are concerns from western officials that Iran, Russia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and North Korea, which has not reported any cases, are also under-counting their cases and death tolls.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged during a press conference Tuesday that China and other nations to be honest and transparent about coronavirus outbreaks in their respective countries.

'This data set matters,' he said, 'so that we can save lives depends on the ability to have confidence and information about what has actually transpired.'

'I would urge every nation: Do your best to collect the data. Do your best to share that information. We're doing that,' Pompeo asserted.

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57 minutes ago, puzzled said:

No surprise there lol

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8177201/amp/China-COVERING-extent-coronavirus-numbers-FAKE-spies-tell-White-House.html

I heard that too bro, but chinese people have the internet. I'm not sure I trust the western media at all right now, if ever. 

You'd think massive death toll woulda made the word of mouth web first.