The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has deliberately concealed and covered up the extent of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China, “under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease,” according to a classified U.S. intelligence report provided to the White House, and cited by Fortune.
The report appears to be from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) since it is reported as representing the views of the Intelligence Community (IC) and not just one agency. According to officials cited by Fortune, the report concludes that “China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete” and “China’s numbers are fake.”
Recent unofficial reports from China of thousands of burial urns outside funeral homes in Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, have only added to public doubts Beijing’s official reporting.
Deborah Birx, the State Department immunologist advising the White House on the outbreak, said at a press conference that China’s public reporting influenced assumptions elsewhere in the world about the nature of the virus, according to Fortune.
“The medical community… interpreted the Chinese data as: This was serious but smaller than anyone expected — Because… we were missing a significant amount of the data, now that what we see happened to Italy and see what happened to Spain.”
Thus, we can conclude that the Chinese misinformation hampered both the international community’s understanding of the threat and the U.S. and global response.
Reporting on the Wuhan coronavirus from Russia, Iran, and North Korea is also highly suspect as those countries struggle to contain their own outbreaks while concealing the truth and misleading the outside world.
Analysts such as myself have been expressing doubts about China’s virus numbers from the beginning, warning of China’s disinformation and propaganda campaign to deflect attention from the virus’ origin in Wuhan and China’s own culpability in allowing this virus to spread globally.
This classified US intelligence report appears to confirm that those warnings were correct, and China’s deliberate disinformation campaign regarding COVID-19 may have turned what could have been a manageable outbreak in China, into a deadly global pandemic.
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Duh……it’s what commies do daily.
So did the WHO. So why are we still spending money for the United Nation when we need to keep it to pay that 2.2 trillion addition to our debt. Anyone know what we are getting out of the UN???? Nothing.
And yet there are Individuals , Political Parties, Countries n Entities and Stupid Idiotic Demented Persons out there that toe the Line and Covered for this Anomaly
China’s economy was in the tank, tanking the world’s economy, especially the U.S., might not have been accidental.
That was probably the plan….never trust China !!!
Weaponized and the truth hidden. If not for what happened in Italy and Spain, we never would have known the severity of this virus. China is our enemy. They want to be number one.