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A Country With Four Sets of COVID-19 Death Tolls

A Country With Four Sets of COVID-19 Death Tolls
Many burning candles with concept of mourning the dead from the COVID-19 in China. (Vladyslav Starozhylov/Shutterstock).
Makai Allbert
&
Yuhong Dong
Yuhong Dong
M.D., Ph.D.
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Can you imagine to what degree one country lies to the world about its COVID-19 death toll? This multiple-part series dives into the superficially reported COVID-19 death tolls by this country’s regime and explores the truth.

Summary of Key Facts

  • Part 1 of this series revealed that the data on COVID-19 deaths in China are dubious. China is estimated to have underreported 140-fold the COVID-19 death rate.
  • China’s regime has published three different sets of official COVID-19 death toll figures.
  • Based on social media reports, a massive increase in the death toll is evident by many corpses on the street, a shortage of coffins, and long waits for cremation services in China.
  • An influential social media website revealed that Beijing’s daily COVID-19 death toll in December was 4,320 but could be as high as 10,000. Based on the 4,320 figure, we estimated a 0.0206 percent mortality rate in Beijing. If this mortality rate is applied to China’s population of 1.45 billion, the daily COVID-19 death toll in China could be 298,700.
  • Crematorium industry data show a steady decline in overall mortality in China before 2019. From 2020 to 2022, there was a sharp increase in the number of cremation furnaces and employees working in the industry.
  • We created a model to estimate the number of COVID-19 deaths in China from 2020 to 2022; the results range from 355,230,027 and 387,408,912.
In Part 1, we exposed the controvertible COVID-19 data reported by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Our findings indicated that the data do not reflect the severity of COVID-19 in China, leading us to investigate the country’s actual death toll.

A Country With Four Sets of COVID-19 Data

China’s regime has reported at least three different sets of COVID-19 death tolls.
The first set comes from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC). As of Jan. 8, 2023, the cumulative—from the beginning of the pandemic—COVID death toll was 5,272.
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