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Comment by fierarul | Hacker News Reader

I just used this repo yesterday to create a chart of the ongoing cases on http://covid.410go.net

It shows that China numbers have been going down for the past 2 weeks. This is not highlighting in the news...

i've seen more than one article that at the least references this, such as https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-03/virus-...

Interesting. I never read news that China cases are actually decreasing and all the charts show the total cases which is flatlining (in China) but not going down.

The rest of the world seems to go exponential, otoh.

Its, hopefully, not mentioned in the news because the CCP is fudging the numbers. There's no way of knowing the exact situation on the ground in wuhan but it's nowhere near the reported cases.

Why do people keep saying this? I've seen interviews with disease specialists that are plugged in to the community and say that the China numbers are not only as accurate as they can be[1], but that it would be really hard to fudge them given the transparency they've already engaged in - my sense from that was that the numbers can be cross-checked in various ways, and that it would be mathematically obvious if there was major fraud going on.

[1]This is a different issue than numbers being limited due to testing shortages, or people with minor symptoms that recover at home, or asymptomatic people not being included in the count - problems that a lot of countries are sharing. We could also argue that US has been "fudging" the numbers because of how they've tested far fewer people than Canada.

Those numbers for China are likely not trustworthy, keeping in mind they come from the government there. They're still keeping WHO inspectors out.

Then why is WHO chairman praising China?

Same reason Steve Kerr did.

Not WHO inspectors, WHO has lots of chinese allegiance, The CDC is the organisation who is blocked from entering.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/us-health-officials-on-corona...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/30/china-asks-...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/world-health-organiza...

Google also seems to heavely favour WHO's website compared to alternative sources of information. Probaly all in order to combat "fake news" some dystopian world we live in.

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