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Are These the 'Real' Wuhan Coronavirus Statistics?
Tencent's current numbers on its "Epidemic Situation Tracker" site match Chinese government tallies reported elsewhere; if the screenshots are not doctored, they were taken during a brief moment before Tencent replaced the numbers with government ones. A spokesperson for Tencent said this site aggregates and reports health information from China’ s National Health Commission and other health authorties, and said the screenshots that differ from official statistics are doctored, according to the Hong Kong English news site Dimsum Daily.
One of the widely-shared screenshots suggests a death tally 80 times greater than the official report. That screen grab from Saturday listed the death toll as 24,589, vastly higher than the 304 that were officially reported at the time. Total cases were also briefly displayed at 154,023, much higher than the officially reported 14,446.
- there were reports that the count was well above 100k at least a week ago, so these seem plausible...grafician
- but what the colors mean? red - confirmed, yellow - probable, green - recovered, grey - dead?grafician
- why would the official government statistics report a higher % death rate?kingsteven
- oh nvm misread thatkingsteven
- This seems pretty obviously fake. I mean, anyone can doctor a screenshot right?yuekit
- I think the true danger is not necessarily a cover up, it's that the government simply has no idea how many are infected.yuekit
- They don't have enough resources to test everyone, so there are almost certainly tens of thousands of people walking around with virus that no one knows about.yuekit
- Look at this story that just got published, new cases found in Singapore that never travelled to China at all.yuekit
- https://www.channeln…yuekit
- That is much more scary IMO, since there's no travel ban or screening of people from Singapore right now as far as I know.yuekit
- Africa has yet to report due to third world infrastructure.robotron3k
- like I said - coming from a former communist country - the numbers will be at least 10x more than reported, but at this stage, it's getting out of handgrafician
- Is there any reason to think they could even diagnose 150,000 people? That requires a massive number of test kits which they don't have and long wait to getyuekit
- that's the scary part - this is getting out of their hands and is serious enough to think the entire of china is compromisedgrafician
- the results. Or a million and a half people like the link claimed below? I think people just want to believe the most extreme rumors.yuekit
- that city wuhan is 10 mil people, if at least 10% are infected, multiply that by 10-20 other cities...grafician
- also there are 400 mil ppl under quarantine, that's more than US and half of Europe!grafician
- I thought it was something like 40 million?yuekit
- btw I was getting numbers from this website which ALREADY has a link for coronavirus numbers!
https://www.worldome…grafician