Coronavirus updates: China's official death toll jumps after major revision

CBS ^ | 04 17 2020 | Tucker Reals, Sarah Lynch Baldwin

[yesthatjallen]

The number of people who were infected and died from the new coronavirus in China's central city of Wuhan, where the world's first infections were reported, has been revised upwards significantly. CBS News correspondent Ramy Inocencio says China now admits that about 50% more people died of the disease in Wuhan than previously reported.

The revision comes just a week and a half after the city celebrated the lifting of an unprecedented 76-day lockdown imposed to stop the disease's spread. The vast majority of China's infections and deaths were recorded in Wuhan. In real numbers, an additional 1,290 deaths were recorded with Friday's admission, bringing the total for Wuhan to 3,869. The number of infections was revised up by 325 to 50,333.

China's state-run Xinhua news agency released a "notice of correction" on Friday, citing "late or missed reporting" of deaths, and overloaded medical staff and sick residents who died at home and were thus not counted in the original tally.

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[headstamp 2]

Now add another 100% to that.

[EagleUSA]

I wonder what the real numbers are?? Knowing the Chicom disdain for the truth, one can only imagine....

[a fool in paradise]

[Meatspace]

Never believe the ChiComs.

They have downplayed the seriousness of COVID-19 from Day 1.

The ChiComs will continue to under report the number of infections and death.

The ChiComs say it is just the flu, Americans are smarter than that.

[Sarah Barracuda]

China forgot to add some more zeros to that number more like between 3 mil and 21 mil

[prophetic]

I believe the actual death count to be in the 300,000 to 600,000 range.

Note how 25 million cellphone users suddenly went missing & offline and never came back?

[hotdogjones]

It is much higher than. Reports leaked out of China say it more like 700K people who have died from covid-19.

They were cremating 1200 people a day in wahun.

https://twitter.com/TomthunkitsMind/status/1235073546088517632

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Chinese were lying.

They are still lying.

[glennaro]

It's a numbers game, folks. A three-card monte ... a fictional account.

Not without good reason, Red China thinks they have America on the ropes with their psychological warfare. Hopefully, as American men step out of their fear-induced paralysis, Red China will realize just how wrong they are in their thinking.

[redcatcherb412]

Not to be outdone by one commie regime, their neighboring commie regime claims almost a clean count.

In Vietnam, There Have Been Fewer Than 300 COVID-19 Cases And No Deaths.

Vietnam virus counts

[KC_Conspirator]

And double that number

[yesthatjallen]

Remember when China kicked out journalists?

Coronavirus: China expels Wall Street Journal journalists for article it deemed racist

[Zhang Fei]

[Now add another 100% to that.]

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I’m gonna say 1000%, i.e. 10x. A US economist who contributes to the China Beige Book, an US-based independent report on Chinese economic conditions used by foreign businesses, suggests that both cases and fatalities are way undercounted. The official case load is in the 80K range. The Beige Book guy estimates 2.9m. The official death number is ~5K. The BB guy estimates 136K (4.7%). (The US death rate is already 5.2%).

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Estimating-the-True-Number-of-Chinas-COVID-19-Cases.pdf

[ridesthemiles]

More like 1000%.

Over 21 million Chinese cell phone accounts are now dormant.