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Don’t trust China’s coronavirus numbers

By Kaylee McGhee White

Published March 30, 2020 9:18pm ET

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Don’t trust China’s coronavirus numbers — A group of medical personnel meet people, carried by a Russian military plane at an airport outside Tyumen, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Russia has evacuated 144 people, Russians and nationals of Belarus, Ukraine and Armenia, from the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, on Wednesday. All evacuees will be quarantined for two weeks in a sanatorium in the Tyumen region in western Siberia, government officials said. | (Maxim Slutsky /AP)

China would have us believe that its Wuhan region, where the novel coronavirus originated and spread to become a global pandemic, has not had a single new case for the past week. What do you think the odds are that this resembles the truth in any way?

China’s government has also reported only 3,000 deaths in the Hubei province, where Wuhan is located — a number that Wuhan’s residents have rejected as a full order of magnitude too small.

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