This news doesn’t come as any surprise to those of us who aren’t blaming Trump for mismanaging this pandemic. Everything from the number of cell phone service cancellations to the number of urns being delivered to funeral homes in China tells us they were lying about the numbers. But it will be sad news for many people who want to blame the administration for everything from acting too soon, to not acting soon enough. We’ve even seen people claim Trump is guilty of negligent homicide; and Nancy Pelosi wants to launch an investigation into ‘what did he know and when did he know it’ as the basis for another sham impeachment.
According to a report from Bloomberg:
China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials.
The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret and declined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete. Two of the officials said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake.
The article goes on to say:
The report was received by the White House last week, one of the officials said.
The outbreak began in China’s Hubei province in late 2019, but the country has publicly reported only about 82,000 cases and 3,300 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. That compares to more than 189,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths in the U.S., which has the largest publicly reported outbreak in the world.
Communications staff at the White House and Chinese embassy in Washington didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
