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Maybe hiding the deaths has been working well: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7969861/Wuhan-crema...

If they are requesting 100 body bags per day how does that’s square with the official death count?

Wuhan is a city of 11 million people. New York City has a population of about 8 million people. In 2010 NYC saw an average of 144 deaths per day (Table P3). By those numbers you'd expect to see around 200 deaths daily in Wuhan without any added pressure from a pandemic.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/6551as_2010_final...

100 body bags per crematorium, 49 crematoriums in Wuhan, supposedly 11 working around the clock.

Which I guess would put deaths at nearer 2000 a day than the official 100 or so.

Daily mail? I'm going to need some more sources for whatever it is they're claiming.

That's why we would all be sleeping easier in our bed if the Chinese would just accept externla help from the USA/WHO/anyone. So far as I understand, there are currently no external observers. There are no reliable sources. Daily Mail is currently no more or less reliable than any other source currently.

I think “bad information from China => daily mail as good as anything else” is a pretty cynical view. I don’t think it’s true in this case

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