A WHO team is just back from China and their assessment is that the outbreak is currently declining there and the numbers provided by China are reasonably accur

A WHO team is just back from China and their assessment is that the outbreak is currently declining there and the numbers provided by China are reasonably accurate. Following are comments by WHO epidemiologist Bruce Aylward in the following articles: > He [Aylward] pointed to humped graphs of cases over time—they are the shape of an epidemic that has been hobbled, he said. Disease spread has been in decline since the beginning of the month, and doctors in China are honing their ability to treat patients. “If I had COVID-19, I’d want to be treated in China,” he said candidly. [1] > There’s plenty of reason to doubt the official numbers—Chinese officials initially covered up the virus and arrested whistle-blowers who tried to expose the outbreak. Aylward acknowledged these concerns on Monday, but added: “The decline that we see is real.” [2] [1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/coronavirus-spread-in-us-not-if-but-when-and-how-severe-cdc-says/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/coronavirus-spread-i... [2] https://www.wired.com/story/could-the-us-contain-a-coronavirus-outbreak/ https://www.wired.com/story/could-the-us-contain-a-coronavir...