The Wuhan files

[Elderberry]

CNN by  Nick Paton Walsh 11/30/2020

Leaked documents reveal China's mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19

London — A group of frontline medical workers, likely exhausted, stand huddled together on a video-conference call as China's most powerful man raises his hand in greeting. It is February 10 in Beijing and President Xi Jinping, who for weeks has been absent from public view, is addressing hospital staff in the city of Wuhan as they battle to contain the spread of a still officially unnamed novel coronavirus.
From a secure room about 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) from the epicenter, Xi expressed his condolences to those who have died in the outbreak. He urged greater public communication, as around the world concerns mounted about the potential threat posed by the new disease.
That same day, Chinese authorities reported 2,478 new confirmed cases -- raising the total global number to more than 40,000, with fewer than 400 cases occurring outside of mainland China. Yet CNN can now reveal how official documents circulated internally show that this was only part of the picture.

In a report marked "internal document, please keep confidential," local health authorities in the province of Hubei, where the virus was first detected, list a total of 5,918 newly detected cases on February 10, more than double the official public number of confirmed cases, breaking down the total into a variety of subcategories. This larger figure was never fully revealed at that time, as China's accounting system seemed, in the tumult of the early weeks of the pandemic, to downplay the severity of the outbreak.

More: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/asia/wuhan-china-covid-intl/index.html

[PeteS in CA]

This CNN article has almost zero info about the most critical time in the outbreak, December, 2019 and January, 2020. There is, literally, far more info available for exploration about that time frame here on TBR - http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,395099.msg2184146.html#msg2184146 and http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,412910.0.html .

CNN also faithfully parroted the lie that Trump downplayed the seriousness of Covid-19, a claim disproven by Trump's very public actions in January, http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,412484.0.html , and February, http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,412485.0.html .