China Is Lying About COVID-19 Death Toll and Confirmed Cases, and the U.S. Intel Community Knows It
The Chinese government is underreporting the outbreak of the coronavirus in its country, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, three U.S. officials confirmed to Bloomberg News Wednesday.
The officials were not at liberty to discuss the details of the secret report, which was sent to the White House last week, but confirmed that the upshot of the report is that “China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete.”
Two officials told the news outlet that the report confirms that the communist country’s publicly reported numbers are “fake.”
As of Wednesday, China had reported about 82,000 confirmed cases of the virus resulting in around 3,300 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. Those figures pale in comparison to the 190,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths already recorded in the United States.
During a press briefing Tuesday, Dr. Deborah Birx, a leading health official on the White House coronavirus task force, said that China’s public reporting, or lack thereof, greatly influenced how the officials responded to the outbreak within America. (Read more from “China Is Lying About COVID-19 Death Toll and Confirmed Cases, and the U.S. Intel Community Knows It” HERE)
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