A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said that the Chinese regime has been under-reporting deaths and hospitalizations from COVID-19 in the country.
“We believe that the current numbers being published from China under-represent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions, particularly in terms of death,” Mike Ryan, the WHO’s emergencies director, told reporters at a media briefing on Jan. 4.
“And we would like to see more data on a more geographic basis across China.”
In late December, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) narrowed its definition for classifying deaths as attributable to COVID-19 by counting only those involving pneumonia or respiratory failure sparked by COVID-19, surprising some world health experts….