{"id":51131,"date":"2020-02-13T12:11:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51131"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:11:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:11:45","slug":"white-house-doubts-chinas-numbers-100000-coronavirus-cases-unreported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51131","title":{"rendered":"White House Doubts China&#8217;s Numbers: 100,000 Coronavirus Cases Unreported"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/beijing-fires-top-party-officials-hubei-after-death-toll-bombshell\">White House Doubts China&#8217;s Numbers: 100,000 Coronavirus Cases Unreported<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Japan reports first virus death<\/li><li>President Xi says China will minimize impact from virus<\/li><li>Chinese leadership scapegoats local officials<\/li><li>Death toll and case count soared last night: There are more than 60k cases worldwide, and more than 1300 deaths<\/li><li>EIA joins OPEC in warning about upcoming drop in oil use, the first in a decade.<\/li><li>HHS Secretary says CDC will announce another confirmed COVID-19 case in US on Thursday<\/li><li>21 people in Spain released from quarantine<\/li><li>US admin reportedly questioning China&#8217;s reporting<\/li><li>White House reportedly &#8220;doubts&#8221; China&#8217;s coronavirus numbers<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update (1150ET):<\/strong>&nbsp;Citing a senior White House official,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/02\/13\/white-house-does-not-have-high-confidence-in-chinas-coronavirus-information-official-says.html\">CNBC<\/a>&nbsp;reports that the White House doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;high confidence&#8221; in the coronavirus numbers coming out of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The U.S. does &#8220;not have high confidence in the information coming out of China&#8221; regarding the count of coronavirus cases, a senior administration official told CNBC.<\/p><p>The official also noted that China &#8220;continues to rebuff American offers of assistance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current thinking is there must be a reason why they won&#8217;t allow the CDC to send over personnel to help with the virus response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Jennifer Zeng tweeted out video of migrant workers being forced to sleep outside because of the draconian lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Doubts China&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[130,964,29011,14907,7258,28849],"class_list":["post-51131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-china","tag-cnbc","tag-covid-19","tag-us-white-house","tag-viral-outbreak","tag-wuhan-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51133,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51131\/revisions\/51133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}