In a subsequent briefing, the WHO emphasized that current data released by the CCP does not reflect the true impact that COVID-19 has had on the country’s hospital admissions, acute care admissions, and especially its death toll.
This article analyzes the drastic discrepancy between data released domestically by the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and the data that China provided to the WHO, particularly during the one-month period from Dec. 8, 2022, to Jan. 8, 2023.
Data Discrepancy: Dec. 8, 2022
On Dec. 8, the China CDC’s website reported no new deaths from COVID-19 and reported a cumulative death toll from the virus of 5,235.The same day, the WHO released the numbers provided to it by China. Those numbers showed 48 new deaths and a cumulative death toll of 30,653.
Data Discrepancy: Jan. 8, 2023
On Jan. 8, the China CDC reported three new deaths and a cumulative death toll of 5,272.Meanwhile, data given to the WHO by China showed 3,229 new deaths as of Jan. 8, and a cumulative death toll of 76,674.
Data Discrepancy Over One Month
Data released by the China CDC for the whole time period from Dec. 8, 2022, to Jan. 8, 2023, recorded 37 new deaths from the virus.However, data reported to the WHO by China for that time period indicated 3,229 new deaths.
Data from the China CDC showed the cumulative death toll rose slowly: from 5,235 on Dec. 8 to 5,272 on Jan. 8, with only 37 new deaths over the one-month period.
However, the data reported to the WHO showed the cumulative death toll rose sharply: from 30,653 to 76,674, with 46,021 new deaths in one month.
This means the one-month cumulative death toll reported to the WHO—46,021 deaths—was about 1,243 times the number released by China CDC—a mere 37 deaths.
Data Discrepancy in Confirmed Cases: Jan. 5, 2023
On Jan. 5, the China CDC released data showing 9,548 new confirmed COVID-19 cases.The same day, data reported to the WHO by China showed an astronomical discrepancy: 1,250,579 new confirmed cases.
A comparison of the two numbers shows a massive 1.24 million discrepancy in daily COVID-19 infections.
Massive Contradiction in Domestic Reports of Confirmed Cases
The China CDC reported on Jan. 25 that “the number of people infected with COVID-19 in hospitals nationwide reached a peak of 1.625 million on January 5, 2023.”However, the China CDC reported elsewhere that there were only about 92,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Jan. 5.
Since not all COVID-positive patients are hospitalized, the number of confirmed cases should be far greater than that of hospitalized patients, not less.
Discrepancy: Data on Hospitalized Patients
There was a further discrepancy in numbers late in January. The China CDC number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 on Jan. 30 was 144,000.Meanwhile, the number provided to the WHO for that date was 28,000 people hospitalized with COVID-19: a discrepancy of about 116,000.
Accountability for Fraudulent CCP Data
The official CCP pandemic data has been under increased scrutiny both domestically and internationally, and it is clear that there are significant loopholes and contradictions in the data released by different departments. The huge discrepancies between the internal China CDC data and that released to the WHO further support the thesis that China’s official numbers were largely falsified—most likely to cover up the scale of the pandemic.In addition, the China CDC has reduced the frequency of reporting from daily to weekly, and even floated the idea of monthly reporting. This has left the Chinese public confused about the current state of the pandemic in the country. It appears that the Chinese regime has no intention of sharing the actual data with the Chinese people and the world.
WHO’s health emergencies chief Dr. Michael Ryan suggested on Jan. 4 that the Chinese regime has underrepresented its COVID-19 numbers amid a massive surge of the pandemic in the country. The United States and the European Union have repeatedly called on the CCP to be transparent about their COVID-19 pandemic data.
Beijing’s unusual U-turn in pandemic policy may indicate that the CCP knew the death toll from the pandemic overall was far beyond its previous estimation. Last December, due to a multitude of factors, China realized that many people were dying despite its zero-COVID policy. On the surface, the regime claimed to be relaxing its pandemic management, but in reality, it was simply giving up on its failed “zero-COVID” policy altogether.
Funeral Home Data: Deaths Could Have Topped 6 Million in December
According to a recent Epoch Times investigation, many funeral parlors in China have large numbers of bodies waiting for cremation. The largest funeral parlor in Shanghai, which formerly handled only about 90 cremations per day, now cremates 400 to 500 bodies daily.On Dec. 14, early in the current outbreak, a funeral home employee told The Epoch Times that there was a week’s backlog in cremations.
“We are very busy every day, and we have never been so busy,” the employee said.
“There are more people being cremated every day than before, and the appointment calls are too many for us to handle. Many people are queuing up [for our service]. We don’t have any rest time here at all.”
Beijing’s Babaoshan Funeral Home operates 19 cremation furnaces and is Beijing’s only facility for specialty cremation, with wider, longer, and taller furnaces for tall or obese corpses.