[Sasparilla]

It appears fatalities are grossly underreported in China

[familyop]

Yes, it looks that way.

So that's three funeral homes in the downtown area and however many in the outlying areas of the city. Wuhan is spread out over a large area.

"Wuhan’s Civil Affairs Bureau designated the Hankou Funeral Home to deal with the bodies of those who were diagnosed and died of the virus, according to state-run media. In addition, the Wuchang Funeral Home and Qingshan Funeral Home were designated to attend to those who died from severe pneumonia, or who were suspected coronavirus cases and died."

Only one of the three funeral homes is for diagnosed cases counted in statistics. There might be more than the three funeral homes out in the suburbs, so to speak.

[Widget Jr]

Maybe not. Numbers pulled off various sources.

Wuhan's population is 11.08 million and China's annual death rate per 1000 is between 7 to 8. So Wuhan's death rate is roughly 77,560 to 88,640 per year, 210 to 240 per day.

Which means those three main funeral homes have to handle on average 70 to 80 bodies per day. To be fair, that is ignoring how many other smaller funeral homes there are. Either way, that's a lot of bodies per facility.

If these facilities were designed to operate at Wuhan's average death rate plus some growth room built into them, then any significant spike in deaths would exceed their capacity.

The article cites January 28 as the day when things picked up. The coronavirus outbreak officially started December 31, and the first death was on January 23. So that's over 400 deaths in two weeks, around 130 more deaths than average per facility, roughly 9 or 10 per day more than average.

It may be the case they are overwhelmed by the spike in the death rate and not covering it up anything. China's censorship can lead to all sorts of speculation.

[Pocketdoor]

At least its only 100 per day.

[Uncle Miltie]

Every day, we need at least 100 body bags,” he said.

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That is for one of three funeral homes. Multiply by three and you get 300 per day, 2,100 per week.

The Commies are reporting only around 500 dead TOTAL. So their lie is at least an order of magnitude. There must be many thousands dead.