Read the following last week, from what seems to be a reliable source.
humanevents.com/2020/01/29/wuhan-a-human-catastrophe/
“Our hospital is already the first-rated (medical level) in the country,” he said in the chat. “If a nurse, or a doctor is infected, just like SARS, it is unavoidable that people in the whole section are potentially infected too. You guys need to be prepared. The whole Orthopedics department of my hospital has been infected. No one is safe,” Dr. Sun warned the others in the group.
“No one is going to add those numbers. Because many people died at home or ER, so their names won’t be added into the statistics,” he added in the group chat, referring to the announced official statistics. Still, information like this is only circulated in their inner circle, not to the public. At the time of this conversation, China had confirmed only 440 cases. The latest official statistics show that there are 5794 identified patients, 9239 suspected cases, and 132 deaths.
According to the information shared by Dr. Huang, however, many doctors from ‘first-and second-grade hospitals’ in major cities along the southeast coast have reached a consensus. They believe that the definite number of infections is five to six times the number officially announced by China, including those who have not been confirmed. The number of deaths, they estimate, is two to three times the official announcement.
CDC: PREPARING AS IF #CORONAVIRUS WERE THE NEXT PANDEMIC pic.twitter.com/pUca6VG5au
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03 Feb – 11:31:39 AM – U.S. CDC CONFIRMS 11 CONFIRMED CORONAVIRUS CASES IN UNITED STATES – TELEBRIEFING – [RTRS]
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Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, Experts Say t.co/leVVAcaTm7
— Jennifer Ablan (@jennablan) February 2, 2020