02-05-2020, 07:36 PM
The article says that Tencent shows the larger numbers only briefly, followed by a change to the official numbers, so even if Tencent is reliable, it's not clear that numbers briefly flashed on the screen would represent anything real.
That said, if those are coronavirus numbers, yeah, 25k deaths out of 230k cases would make the situation look rather different. Still, the fatality rate outside of China has been low enough that if I had to guess, I'd guess those numbers are for some other illness.
That said, if those are coronavirus numbers, yeah, 25k deaths out of 230k cases would make the situation look rather different. Still, the fatality rate outside of China has been low enough that if I had to guess, I'd guess those numbers are for some other illness.