How China's Decision To Block Information On Its Coronavirus Outbreak Led To the Covid-19 Pandemic

People wearing masks, attend a vigil for Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, in Hong Kong, February 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Times Of Israel: Xi Jinping’s China did this

The corrupt, criminal regime wasted 40 days blocking information while it crushed domestic dissent and ensured COVID-19 would become a global pandemic.

There is authoritative and compelling evidence — including a study from the University of Southampton — that if interventions in China had been conducted three weeks earlier, transmission of COVID-19 could have been reduced by 95 percent.

For 40 days, President Xi Jinping’s CPC concealed, destroyed, falsified, and fabricated information about the rampant spread of COVID-19 through its state-sanctioned massive surveillance and suppression of data; its misrepresentation of information; its silencing and criminalizing of its dissent; and its disappearance of its whistleblowers.

In late December 2019, Dr. Ai Fen, director of the Emergency Department at the Central Hospital of Wuhan — “The Whistle-Giver” — disseminated information about COVID-19 to several doctors, one of whom was Dr. Li Wenliang, and eight of whom were later arrested. Dr. Ai has recently disappeared.

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Update: Fauci: China misled the world; virus erupted in mid-December (Washington Times)

WNU Editor: It was more to the end of December that Chinese doctors in Wuhan first raised the alarm, not mid-December as Dr. Fauci claims. But it is true that about 40 days were lost that could have been used to prevent Covid-19 to become the global pandemic that it became. And to make it worse .... mislead international researchers that the virus could not be transmitted between humans until February.