Why do people keep saying this? I've seen interviews with disease specialists that are plugged in to the community and say that the China numbers are not only a

Why do people keep saying this? I've seen interviews with disease specialists that are plugged in to the community and say that the China numbers are not only as accurate as they can be[1], but that it would be really hard to fudge them given the transparency they've already engaged in - my sense from that was that the numbers can be cross-checked in various ways, and that it would be mathematically obvious if there was major fraud going on. [1]This is a different issue than numbers being limited due to testing shortages, or people with minor symptoms that recover at home, or asymptomatic people not being included in the count - problems that a lot of countries are sharing. We could also argue that US has been "fudging" the numbers because of how they've tested far fewer people than Canada.