China’s data reveal a puzzling link between covid-19 cases and political events

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Unusual spikes in new cases, and the curious way their timing matches political developments in China, raise questions about their accuracy

EVER SINCE the new coronavirus started to spread beyond China’s borders, the country’s official tally of infections has served as a grim benchmark for the outbreaks that followed. On March 26th the count in China was surpassed by that in America, now the centre of the pandemic. Since then China’s total, now close to 83,000, has also been overtaken by those of Italy, Spain, Germany and France.

Take Hubei, the province hit hardest by covid-19. On February 9th the region reported a 27% increase in new infections. On the next two days, new cases declined by 20% and 22%, respectively. Then on February 12th they surged by a whopping 742% to almost 14,000, before immediately falling back sharply. Chinese authorities say the spike was caused by revisions to the government’s methodology for counting cases.

 

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“Spikes in new covid-19 cases in China have coincided with changes in personnel or policy announcements”

IT IS PROBABLY DUE STARTING FROM POINT ZERO AG

Same as China’s stock markets-regulations and policies are the biggest drivers

Well, while reaching the peak they changed the criteria of positive cases from kit test to CT scans because tests were too low and many needed hospitalization, ergo the spike in the middle of the chart.

China puts politics above everything, including human life

It’s almost like their data is deliberately unreliable: a fact grounded in political ideology not race, to be clear. Let’s stick to transparent democratic western nations’ disclosure re COVID before any country moves away from full testing, social distancing and contact tracing.

at least one mistake in pic1. actually the first peak came after appointment of Hubei and Wuhan party leaders. in pic 1, after the appointments, data drop down from the peak, that is not truth.

Oh no, it is Chinese data, it is fake, how dare you us it!

If all the consequences were flipped to be reasons, you would see puzzling link everywhere.

If all the consequences were flipped to be reasons, you would see puzzling link everywhere. Distorted pupils is what I can see from this.

PM Li's remarks was commanding officers to work comprehensively to report the situation,base on which accurate policy could be released. Not because the numbers reported previously was fake. Totally misleading.

These is little doubt that China die get of under control in reasonable time. If most countries would have acted like them, er would have less problems. Of is no good time vor new conspiracy theories.

The world knew about this didn't we? The old wuhan leadership was criticized like hell, so the new one came in and changed to a stronger tactic which brought changes. What is it that puzzles you? Is it the question why China could flatten the curve and we could not?

Victorasaraujo

'Puzzling' is a nice way to put it.

Respect science

So now the West believes China's data. consistency

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According to Worldometer, the spike in cases was due to a change in how cases were tabulated. They decided to include cases with demonstrated syptoms of Covid-19.

FUCKING DUH!

No one believes their number... Useless to analyse those 'data'

No one believes their number. The world is not stupid.

Do you know that people in China will be put in prison after they are tested positive, then cured ( of course free treament) if people do not claim or hide their symptoms like fever,cough etc!

Thanks, I will Promote any Business:

Because the formal leaders of hubei province is incompetent, so they were removed, the spike in Shandong province was an infection outbreak in a prison, so the leader was removed too. In China, the rules for infection prevention are very strict!

US cases exceed China 4 times , your house is on fire and you still talk about politics?

🙄That spike —— in the past if u want to be count as a covid-19 cases, u must be tested as positive

pity nobody sees the effort China has made to fight the virus. stupid will think China can win the war with false information.

Your editor is as dumb as usual.

Why economists say this lies to the world?

Trust me,even in China nobody believes the numbers except trolls

Canada believe China, is buying Huawei 5 g system. Anything China says or does if for the good of the Chinese government. Anyone who believes reports fro China is a damn fool!

Can waive off their digital subscription fee during this pandemic?

nomoremadeinchina the chineses government always lies

Stupid

Trump humiliated China publicly on and on, they asked him not to. So

They said no one died in Tiananmen square on 4th of June 1989. How come anyone can believe CCP-provided figure?

It's not puzzling at all. China lies!

There is no accuracy, it's all bulls$it out of the CCP

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