CNN: From Allegations of Cover up, China’s Gov’t Stepped in and Controlled Coronavirus Outbreak

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CULVER: "Anderson, it’s interesting listening to Ben reporting there in Italy and the fact that where this started, they are now sending help out to the world. So the epicenter of all of this, here in China, is under control to such an extent they feel like they can help other countries like Italy. It is a significant turnaround, especially when you look at the daily number of reported cases. We’re talking about single digits now. Just go back a few weeks, we were talking about in the hundreds, even in the thousands. What we need to stress though is it did not start out this way. Early on, go back seven weeks, when we were in Wuhan, they had allegations of cover up, allegations of under-reporting, they had really only 200 tests a day for a city population of 11 million. What changed was when the central government stepped in. They pushed out the local government, they said, 'We’re taking control.' It became a military-like operation. They began ramping up production of face masks. They began opening up these field hospitals. Our daily lives changed drastically. I look on social media and I see folks in the States and in Europe, and it’s kind of jarring to me, to be quite honest, to see people out in fitness centers, to see them still going out in social settings. Because here it was just about overnight where churches were closed, fitness centers were closed, restaurants were closed. Everything came to a halt. And it has not been perfect, but the numbers are showing that it seems to have been at least effective for now."