[新聞] 彭博:美國情報機構指中國隱瞞疫情嚴重
1.新聞網址︰
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-v
irus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says
https://tinyurl.com/tjd552l
2.新聞來源︰
彭博社 Bloomberg
Nick Wadhams, Jennifer Jacobs
3.新聞內容︰
China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, und
er-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the
U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White Hous
e, according to three U.S. officials.
The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret and decl
ined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China’s publi
c reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete. Two of the offici
als said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake.
The report was received by the White House last week, one of the officials sai
d.
The outbreak began in China’s Hubei province in late 2019, but the country ha
s publicly reported only about 82,000 cases and 3,300 deaths, according to dat
a compiled by Johns Hopkins University. That compares to more than 189,000 cas
es and more than 4,000 deaths in the U.S., which has the largest publicly repo
rted outbreak in the world.
Communications staff at the White House and Chinese embassy in Washington didn
’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
While China eventually imposed a strict lockdown beyond those of less autocrat
ic nations, there has been considerable skepticism of China’s reported number
s, both outside and within the country. The Chinese government has repeatedly
revised its methodology for counting cases, for weeks excluding people without
symptoms entirely, and only on Tuesday added more than 1,500 asymptomatic cas
es to its total.
Stacks of thousands of urns outside funeral homes in Hubei province have drive
n public doubt in Beijing’s reporting.
Deborah Birx, the State Department immunologist advising the White House on it
s response to the outbreak, said Tuesday that China’s public reporting influe
nced assumptions elsewhere in the world about the nature of the virus.
“The medical community made -- interpreted the Chinese data as: This was seri
ous, but smaller than anyone expected,” she said at a news conference on Tues
day. “Because I think probably we were missing a significant amount of the da
ta, now that what we see happened to Italy and see what happened to Spain.”
China is not the only country with suspect public reporting. Western officials
have pointed to Iran, Russia, Indonesia and especially North Korea, which has
not reported a single case of the disease, as probable under-counts. Others i
ncluding Saudi Arabia and Egypt may also be playing down their numbers
U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has publicly urged China and other nati
ons to be transparent about their outbreaks. He has repeatedly accused China o
f covering up the extent of the problem and being slow to share information, e
specially in the weeks after the virus first emerged, and blocking offers of h
elp from American experts.
“This data set matters,” he said at a news conference in Washington on Tuesd
ay. The development of medical therapies and public-health measures to combat
the virus “so that we can save lives depends on the ability to have confidenc
e and information about what has actually transpired,” he said.
“I would urge every nation: Do your best to collect the data. Do your best to
share that information,” he said. “We’re doing that.”
4.附註、心得、想法︰
美國情報機構在上週遞交白宮的報告指出,中國掩蓋了武漢肺炎爆發的程度,包括確診及
死亡人數。該報告結論:中國報告的數字是假的(fake),使醫學界低估疫情嚴重性,直到
義大利跟西班牙的情況發生。
除了中國,伊朗、俄羅斯、印尼、北韓、沙烏地阿拉伯已經埃及也被認為可能壓低數據。
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