Is Beijing Hiding the Severity of the Coronavirus Threat?

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is withholding the truth about the coronavirus outbreak

People wear face masks as they wait at Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan City, China on Jan. 22, 2020. A new infectious coronavirus known as "2019-nCoV" was discovered in Wuhan last week. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images

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According to official statistics, which are being updated several times per day, 41 people have died and over 800 are under observation or have fallen ill from the Wuhan coronavirus. That’s more than double the number of fatalities and three times the number of infected people reported from the day before.