{"id":1786586,"date":"2022-12-26T06:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786586"},"modified":"2022-12-26T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:34:11","slug":"leaked-estimate-250-million-have-caught-covid-in-china-in-past-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaked-estimate-250-million-have-caught-covid-in-china-in-past-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Estimate: 250 Million Have Caught COVID in China in Past Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleaked-estimate-250-million-have-caught-covid-in-china-in-past-month%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/f284a87f-4678-4868-a64f-07901d15eeec-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this week there were multiple reports from China about funeral parlors and crematoriums running <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2022\/12\/19\/evidence-that-china-is-covering-up-covid-deaths-right-now-n518919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">above full capacity<\/a>. A projection by a US based health group concluded that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/new-covid-model-predicts-over-1-mln-deaths-china-through-2023-2022-12-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up to a million people<\/a> in China could die from the virus now that China has abandoned its zero COVID approach.\u00a0While all of this was happening under the gaze of foreign media outlets, official numbers from China said only a handful of people had died this month. Clearly something didn\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-12-23\/china-estimates-covid-surge-is-infecting-37-million-people-a-day?leadSource=uverify%20wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg reported<\/a> that leaked estimates from China\u2019s top health authority paint a very different picture. China\u2019s National Health Commission (NHC) held a meeting on Wednesday and the figures used in that meeting suggest about 18% of China\u2019s entire population has come down with COVID <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/23\/china\/china-covid-infections-250-million-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Almost 250 million people in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/specials\/asia\/china\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a> may have caught Covid-19 in the first 20 days of December, according to an internal estimate from the nation\u2019s top health officials\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Among the estimates cited in both reports, was the revelation that on Tuesday alone, 37 million people were newly infected with Covid-19 across China. That stood in dramatic contrast to the official number of 3,049 new infections reported that day.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times said it was Sun Yang \u2013 a deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention \u2013 who presented the figures to officials during the closed-door briefing, citing two people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Sun explained that the rate of Covid\u2019s spread in China was still rising and estimated that more than half of the population in Beijing and Sichuan were already infected, according to the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear where these figures come from because China has essentially stopped testing everyone all the time. Still the numbers are order of magnitude different from the official numbers released by the NHC. So far this month they have reported about 65,000 symptomatic COVID cases and just 8 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>What we know for certain is that the official figures aren\u2019t right. There are multiple videos available on Twitter showing far more than 8 deaths in a single hospital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is the video of the hospital morgue <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ur1PKOYEcI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/Ur1PKOYEcI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wang Xiangwei (@wangxiangweihk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wangxiangweihk\/status\/1605855544924704768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are a bunch of videos like this but because of how China is counting COVID deaths most of these deaths won\u2019t be counted in the official statistics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China has officially reported two deaths in Beijing during the latest Covid surge but crematoriums are saying they\u2019ve run out of space to put the bodies. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/china?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#china<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KSgzfJOUAU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/KSgzfJOUAU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 China Uncensored (@ChinaUncensored) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChinaUncensored\/status\/1605985666592022530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are some videos, which I\u2019ll spare you, showing people collapsing in the street, similar to the ones we saw in the early days of the pandemic. But true to form, China cares more about saving face than telling the truth about what is going on. So state media propagandists like Hu Xijin are posting videos like this one. The idea is that things can\u2019t be as bad in China as foreign media claims because lots of young people are out Christmas shopping.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A friend of mine recorded the video at Wangfujing Commercial Street in Beijing. It seems Beijing has raised the curtain of post-epidemic recovery and prosperity on a large scale tonight. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/26lX2zCLmt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/26lX2zCLmt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hu Xijin \u80e1\u9521\u8fdb (@HuXijin_GT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HuXijin_GT\/status\/1606665618799067136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course the fact that lots of younger and healthier people are going about their business doesn\u2019t mean that lots of older and less healthy people aren\u2019t currently overwhelming hospitals, funeral parlors or morgues in Beijing and Shanghai. Both things can be true at once.<\/p>\n<p>The South China Morning Post is predicting that the peak number of infections nationwide will happen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3204449\/beijings-covid-wave-may-have-peaked-chinas-tsunami-cases-months-easing-experts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sometime in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ben Cowling, chair professor of epidemiology and head of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Hong Kong\u2019s school of public health, agreed that some cities like Beijing might have already passed their peak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think nationwide the peak in infections will be in early January. Some cities like Beijing may already have passed their peak,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Guangfa, a respiratory expert at Peking University First Hospital, told medical news portal Yixuejie that the capital should brace for a peak in severe diseases in one or two weeks, adding that cases would ease only after the Lunar New Year holiday in late January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe probably have to wait until February or March before things return to normal,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So this is going to get worse before it gets better. China\u2019s government will continue to lie about the number of infections and the number of deaths despite evidence showing otherwise. Hopefully this won\u2019t be the last leak that gives us a hint of what the actual numbers look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week there were multiple reports from China about funeral parlors and crematoriums running above full capacity. A projection by a US based health group concluded that up to a million people in China could die from the virus now that China has abandoned its zero COVID approach.\u00a0While all of this was happening under &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1786589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,11056,5458,3656,4501,4127,11782,4334,10740,4116,7666,6155,3819],"class_list":["post-1786586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-11056","tag-bongino","tag-caught","tag-china","tag-covid","tag-estimate","tag-have","tag-leaked","tag-million","tag-month","tag-past","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}