The outbreak of the Chinese Communist Party virus in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 has led to widespread skepticism about both its published infection and death figures, as Chinese authorities have consistently concealed the outbreak. A team of researchers from Wuhan University and others recently published a report in an international medical journal, in which they inferred that 168,000 people in Wuhan had been infected with the disease, three times the official figure, and that the rate of asymptomatic infection was 369 times higher than the official figure.
According to Hong Kong 01, a research team led by Wuhan University published a report in the English-language international medical journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases on the 7th, making the above inference.
The team used a commercial colloidal gold test kit to test 63,107 healthy people in Wuhan and other parts of China for the 2019 novel coronavirus from March 6 to May 3 last year, the report said, citing the report.
The results found that 10,086 people from Wuhan tested positive for the virus, 186 people, or 1.68%; 38,171 people from Hubei province, excluding Wuhan, tested positive for the virus, 226 people, or 0.59%; and 13,850 people from other provinces tested positive for the virus, 53 people, or 0.38%.
Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, with a population of 10 million, was the first city in the world to have an outbreak. The report estimates that 168,000 people were infected during the Communist epidemic, based on a 1.68 percent positive infection rate.
The report said that as of May 19 last year, there were 50,340 confirmed cases of hospitalization reported in Wuhan, indicating that only about 1/3 of all infected people there needed to be hospitalized and at least 2/3 of those infected were asymptomatic.
According to a report by the Wuhan health Commission on June 3 of last year, based on nucleic acid testing of 9.9 million people in Wuhan from May 14 to June 1 (near universal testing), the rate of asymptomatic infection was 0.303 per 10,000, or 1 in every 33,000 people.
The results of the study released by a team from Wuhan University and others yielded an asymptomatic infection rate of 1.12% (1.68% times 2/3), about 369 times the rate of asymptomatic infection based on nucleic acid testing by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission.
The study used statistical methods to examine the correlation between gender, age, and geographic differences and the 2019 coronavirus IgG and IgM antibody seropositivity rates, concluding that “older adults have higher infection rates and women are more likely to be infected than men,” the report said.
The conclusions also include that the positive rate in Wuhan is significantly higher than in Hubei Province and other parts of China, and that the closer the provinces and cities are to Wuhan, the higher the positive rate, indicating that the virus is spreading from Wuhan to the surrounding areas.
Multiple studies show CCP revised downward the number of Wuhan infections by at least 10 times
On January 23, 2020, the day before New Year’s Eve, all land and air traffic in Wuhan was completely shut down, except for the highways, making Wuhan, a thoroughfare of nine provinces with a population of more than 11 million, an isolated and closed city. The decision to seal off the city came so quickly that the local community was barely prepared for the response and medical resources, and the sudden blockade not only panicked the people of Wuhan, but also worried the outside world: should the city be closed? When will the blockade be lifted? When the “Wuhan unexplained pneumonia” incident was reported at the end of 2019, to Dr. Li Wenliang’s previous warning and the final decision to close the city in January, how much information did the government have in the middle of the process? Was there a problem of under-reporting in Wuhan? How was the decision to close the city evaluated? It is doubtful that there was a “problem of immediate closure”, but the truth did not come out with the lifting of the closure of Wuhan.
On April 16, Wuhan officials reported that the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the city was 50,333, with 3,869 deaths.
However, Wuhan, where “8 bodies were carried out in 5 minutes” and “it took 5 or 6 hours to receive the urn”, was filmed, is feared to have a death toll of 40,000, with the number of infected people at least 10 times higher than officially announced.
Several research groups have studied the Wuhan epidemic figures, and all have reported that the CCP is seriously concealing the epidemic figures.
In a report published by Caixin in May 2020, Wuhan conducted a sero-epidemiological survey of 11,000 people last April, of which 5 to 6 percent were antibody-positive, a rate that could be considered approximately the rate of previous infections. This percentage is higher than expected. The article states that this result has finally been published and that this is the first large-scale antibody test in China. The article also points out that, by this projection, at least 500,000 of Wuhan’s 11 million people have been infected. And the cumulative number of confirmed infections in Wuhan is currently more than 50,000, meaning that about 90% of those infected have gone undetected.
However, the above article was quickly deleted, although the Google search engine still shows the title of the Sina and Finance article “Preliminary assessment of nucleic acid testing in Wuhan: at least 500,000 people infected out of 10 million”, but after clicking on it, the page pops up with the words “article does not exist”.
In mid-February last year, the Hong Kong Economic Times quoted the Medical Research Council-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Lancaster University (UK) and the University of Florida (USA) as saying that the article was not available. A paper published in mid-February last year by Lancaster University, the Medical Research Council-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research and the University of Florida suggested that the official number of infections released by the Chinese Communist Party was about 5.1 percent of the actual number of infections. Difficulty in detection and the lack of symptoms in most people are reasons why patients do not seek medical attention.
The front page of Le Parisien last April questioned whether the authorities were lying when China announced that only 3,000 people had died from the outbreak. Carine Milcent, a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research and an expert on Chinese health issues who has lived in China for 10 years, told this media outlet that this figure does not accurately represent reality. First of all, it only counts confirmed patients who died in hospitals, excluding those who died at home. At the same time, it excludes from the list of those who died of the CCP virus those who were already sick and died of the disease. Another important reason is that this is a dictatorship where shrinking numbers are taken for granted.
Caixin magazine noted that on March 25-26, large trucks delivered about 2,500 urns a day to one of seven funeral homes in Wuhan. In addition, photos and videos emerged showing long lines of people waiting silently to receive urns from March 23 onward. Some witnesses said they had to wait six hours to pick them up. April 5 is Ching Ming Festival, and the funeral home guaranteed to deliver the urns to the families of the deceased before Ching Ming Festival came, and on March 26, authorities ordered a ban on grave sweeping at the cemetery until the end of April.
Some netizens estimate that each of the seven funeral homes can distribute 500 urns per day, and the seven together can distribute 3,500 urns, for a total of 12 days until the Qingming Festival, for a total of 42,000 urns. A Wuhan resident told Radio Free Asia that the official figures are not credible as the seven funeral homes can cremate 2,000 bodies per day. Numerous Wuhan residents believe that 40,000 people died from the epidemic.
The Chinese Communist Party changed the way it counted confirmed and dead cases several times during the epidemic, and for a few days the authorities agreed that CT scans would be used to determine whether a diagnosis was confirmed without the need for nucleic acid testing; on February 12, the number of confirmed cases in Hubei jumped by 14,000, but this method was abandoned a week later. Caixin quoted a woman named Liu as saying that her father was admitted to hospital in January for brain cancer, but then had to give up his bed to a patient with the new virus, so in January his father had to go home and waited until March to be hospitalized again, dying a few days later.
British media reported that some scientists told British Prime Minister Johnson that the Chinese Communist Party may be hiding the large number of confirmed cases, which could be 15 to 40 times the official figure.
On December 30, 2020, the Chinese CDC released a study of the outbreak, which indicated that Wuhan’s infection rate was about 5% of the local population, or 500,000 people, a figure nearly 10 times different from the Wuhan authorities’ claim that “only 50,000 people were infected.
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