Posted on 04/01/2020 9:33:37 AM PDT by FewsOrange
The U.S. Intelligence Community has concluded that China concealed the extent of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in the country, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.
A classified report submitted to the White House states that China intentionally lowered its reported number of coronavirus cases, according to three officials familiar with the matter. The officials did not indicate if the report estimates what China’s actual infection rate is. The news comes a day after Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, suggested that the U.S. response to the pandemic may not have been as effective as possible due to “missing” data from China.
“The medical community interpreted the Chinese data as, this was serious, but smaller than anyone expected,” Birx said at a press briefing. “Because, probably…we were missing a significant amount of the data, now that we see what happened to Italy and we see what happened to Spain.”
China could have prevented 95 percent of coronavirus infections if it had acted sooner to stem the outbreak, according to one study.
U.S. officials and lawmakers have repeatedly accused China of covering up the extent of the outbreak. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged fellow nations to be transparent about the information they share regarding the coronavirus.
“I would urge every nation: Do your best to collect the data. Do your best to share that information,” Pompeo said. “We’re doing that.”
Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) has repeatedly claimed that China was underreporting cases of coronavirus. Cotton argued in a January 28 letter to Pompeo and Health Secretary Alex Azar that the Trump administration should ban travel from China, in part because China was not reporting the extent of the epidemic.
“As of [Tuesday] morning, China has reported that the Wuhan coronavirus has infected more than 4,500 people and killed more than 100,” Cotton wrote. “But the real number is likely far higher — perhaps in the hundreds of thousands — given the Chinese Communist Party’s long history of covering up and minimizing these crises.”
Well, I concluded that months ago; and for just half the money the agencies spent on determining that, I would have told them so...
As usual the last people on the planet to wake-up to what actually happened.
Where was our CIA??? Looking for “Russians”.
Next questions
Why didnt we have better intelligence on China?
How many intelligence desks from Nov-Feb were tied up by Schiff’s impeachment frenzy?
chicom bump for later.....
I am an uneducated deplorable and I figured that out long ago.
Intentional bio weapon release on the world
Bloomberg. Not reliable.
I would tend to believe NSA or Defense Intelligence, not CIA.
Wow, thanks for the heads up!
just go back an read the daily threads on FR starting in late JAN
lots of evidence and studies of this
all they had to do was read the threads
why did it take them this long?
Too bad they follow the rest of the world at a distance of 3 months. Sheesh. But I guess we’re all on the same page now.
Nice to know these guys are ‘on it’
How many intelligence desks from Nov-Feb were tied up by Schiff’s/Pelosi’s impeachment frenzy?
I added the head B$tch’s name to your on target question.
Who made the announcement? Captain Itsa Obviouso?
No Sh!t, Sherlock.
Well we obviously have the finest minds working in the IQ community to crack this nut.
Well, if youre going to state the obvious, send a hot chick out to say it.
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