Heritage’s Dean Cheng: China Needs To Be Consistent and Transparent on Coronavirus Numbers

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CHANG: "It makes it extremely difficult. Because if we’re going to get our arms around the coronavirus problem, we need two sets of figures. We need to know how many people have been infected and we need to he know how many people have died from the disease. The death figures are already difficult because with the constant change in how it’s been defined, we don’t really know whether people who might have died from the virus in, say, December, are being counted. But the bigger problem right now is what is the mortality rate which requires knowing exactly how many people have in fact been infected. When they keep changing the statistics, that’s why last week we had a sudden surge of several thousand victims counted in one day. It wasn’t that they were new, it's that they changed the way they were counting."