Originally Posted by
AntiPeter
Also, China did not consider someone infected unless they tested positive AND had symptoms. So they missed at the very least half of the infections (and probably a lot more than half).
China has been under reporting infections and deaths for some time, probably since this whole thing started. The reports in the British/world press that the US is the "epicenter" of COVID-19 shows their bias, given that it is tacitly acknowledged by so many journalists and governments that China, India, and Brazil are massive hot zones that have not been properly disclosing their statistics.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...elligence-says
Think about how bad it is in the USA right now. 100,000 dead by June as a best case scenario, and that's with social distancing, and then look at Brazil, where the leader is still in denial and people are not changing their habits. Add their population density and healthcare system and then think about how bad it's going to get there. You don't have to be Frederick Zoller to realize a lot of Brazilians are going to die.