Coronavirus: China concealed extent of outbreak, US intelligence says

WASHINGTON - 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 US intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three US officials.

That compares to more than 189,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths in the US, which has the largest publicly reported outbreak in the world. "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."

Stacks of thousands of urns outside funeral homes in Hubei province have driven public doubt in Beijing's reporting.Enhancing Beijing's role in the pandemic could be politically helpful to President Donald Trump, who has sought to shift blame for the US outbreak away from his administration's delays in achieving widespread testing for the virus and mobilising greater production of supplies such as face masks and hospital ventilators.

Deborah Birx, the State Department immunologist advising the White House on its response to the outbreak, said on Tuesday that China's public reporting influenced assumptions elsewhere in the world about the nature of the virus.

Truly pot and kettle

Why concealed? Tell the truth to wake the people up from their babarious habit of eating blood (meat); hence, humane leaders and governments should lead them to heaven not hell...

US spend more money on military than domestic needs, healthcare being the obvious. They need to find an explaination why the US rate of infections is faster than China in this short period of time.

focus more on your own country instead of suspecting others maliciously.

US should just be happy to be world top in anything! Of course including this pandemic

Pot and kettle

You all do know that US intelligence works for Trump, right?

mkjai0401 China hid their problem again & again. They just got away everytime.

Not suprising, but doesn’t mean we should remain silent. Coronavirus outbreak tells us that CCP censorship is not only a China thing, it’s affecting all of us with hefty price.

Truth starting to appear eh,guess there's just too much incriminating evidence to hide the true numbers any longer.

Another secret invention by the US intelligence services? Well done ! Before anyone swallow it wholesale, be reminded of Pompeo interview in Texas, the US intelligence and CIA will, quote ‘We cheat, We lie, We steal’ Be your own judge !

If true - as suspected !!

Clean your own chaos first

Saying so means solid evidences have been obtained and will be used at the Right time, the final blow

Time to safe human species! Who cares if they lie I don't live there!

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