Coronavirus: China’s Hubei reports 14,840 new cases, 242 additional deaths
I think we were all suspecting this, consider the graph at:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;coronavirus-cases&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;coronavirus-cases&#x2F;</a><p>Observe the &quot;Daily New Cases&quot; graph, that looks like a sawtooth. It&#x27;s very easy to mentally fit a straight line on the left edge, and another straight line on the right edge.<p>Now pretend the actual detected cases simply continued on the original straight line, then at ~Feb 11 it would reach about 6k per day, instead of falling down to 2k per day.<p>So the missing triangle has a base of about 7 days, and a height of about (6k - 2k) = 4k per day.<p>The missing people under the area is thus base * height &#x2F; 2 = 7 days * 4k per day &#x2F; 2 = 14k people...<p>The reason we all knew the crooked graph had to be false was because if you consider the time distributions from infected to infectious, from infectious to encountering a new person etc... then these distributions convolve, so you never get these simple instantaneous hard bends.<p>The new numbers tell us that the original trajectory is continuing roughly unabated!<p>So was this deception to buy time? build hope? it doesn&#x27;t make any sense. Unless Xi is so desperate as to become an inside trader and manipulate the worldwide markets?