'The Wuhan Files': CNN Publishes Leaked Report Showing China Downplayed COVID-19 Outbreak

CNN has just published the first of what might be a series of reports on a cache of new documents purporting to prove that the information disseminated by Chinese government officials was markedly different from the numbers, assessments and projections being shared with top-level officials.

A whistleblower who worked in the Chinese health care system provided 117 pages of internal documents from Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention to CNN. The report analyzes data collected between Oct. 2019 and April 2020.

In a file labeled "Internal document, please keep confidential," the Hubei Provincial CDC recorded 5,918 new cases on that date, with 2,345 "Confirmed cases," 1,772 "Clinically diagnosed cases" and 1,796 "Suspected cases."

Perhaps the most intriguing finding from the report is the fact that influenza cases mysteriously spiked in Hubei Province right around this time last year.

The outbreak wasn't widely reported before now, even though the instance of cases was 20x higher than the prior year, according to the documents.

At the same time that the virus is believed to have first emerged, the documents show another health crisis was unfolding: Hubei was dealing with a significant influenza outbreak.

The influenza "Epidemic," as officials noted in the document, was not only present in Wuhan in December, but was greatest in the neighboring cities of Yichang and Xianning.

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