Local Officials in China Hid Coronavirus Dangers from Beijing, US Agencies Find

If there are structures in place such that the bottom rungs of management are unable or terrified of reporting bad news up the chain, then the problem is not them. The problem is the culture of secrecy and the tools that enable them to silence people.

The CCP is wholly responsible, because they set the standards and they set the mandate (being that societal peace trumps everything including objective medical data).

The CCP is the opposite of transparent, and even aside from the January incident, they took repeated measures to cover up the cases in their country. Additionally, the figures to this day are doubted by US intelligence.

Hiding is not the solution