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Xi met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on January 21 to request that he withhold information about human-to-human transition and delay the declaration of a global pandemic, according to German magazine Der Spiegel. The news comes amid rising sentiment that China should be held financially responsible for the pandemic.
Having an additional four-to-six weeks of preparation time could have meant the world avoided the pandemic altogether, according to a study published in early March.
Researchers at the University of Southampton said that if China had acted and gone public with its information just three weeks sooner, it could have reduced the spread of the disease by as much as 95 percent.
The U.S. intelligence community, meanwhile, concluded by mid-March that Beijing’s Communist government was fabricating its coronavirus casualty and death rate, as in underreporting numbers. That’s why the country can ‘claim’ that the outbreak has been worse elsewhere, like in the United States — where, oddly, we seem to be overcounting deaths, probably to help justify economy-killing shutdown orders.
