White House Doubts China’s Numbers: 100,000 Coronavirus Cases Unreported
Summary:
- Japan reports first virus death
- President Xi says China will minimize impact from virus
- Chinese leadership scapegoats local officials
- Death toll and case count soared last night: There are more than 60k cases worldwide, and more than 1300 deaths
- EIA joins OPEC in warning about upcoming drop in oil use, the first in a decade.
- HHS Secretary says CDC will announce another confirmed COVID-19 case in US on Thursday
- 21 people in Spain released from quarantine
- US admin reportedly questioning China’s reporting
- White House reportedly “doubts” China’s coronavirus numbers
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Update (1150ET): Citing a senior White House official, CNBC reports that the White House doesn’t have “high confidence” in the coronavirus numbers coming out of China.
The U.S. does “not have high confidence in the information coming out of China” regarding the count of coronavirus cases, a senior administration official told CNBC.
The official also noted that China “continues to rebuff American offers of assistance.”
The current thinking is there must be a reason why they won’t allow the CDC to send over personnel to help with the virus response.
Meanwhile, Jennifer Zeng tweeted out video of migrant workers being forced to sleep outside because of the draconian lockdown.
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