Internal documents that were leaked to The Epoch Times show that the Chinese communist regime has a large amount of data on influenza and other diseases that have symptoms similar to COVID-19, but did not disclose it to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the outside world.
Since wrapping up an investigation into the origins of the global CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, experts on the team assigned by the WHO have complained about the Chinese regime’s refusal to provide the related data.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 12, that Dominic Dwyer, a member of the WHO expert team and an Australian infectious disease expert, said that when the WHO expert team conducted an investigation into the source of the epidemic in Wuhan, the CCP refused to provide the data of 174 COVID-19 patients in the early stages of the outbreak, as well as data on pneumonia patients who may have been infected by the virus earlier than December 2019.
According to the report, the CCP only provided influenza surveillance data from one children’s hospital and one general hospital. The report cites WHO experts saying that one of the reasons for the regime refusing to provide COVID-19 origin tracing data is its lack of early influenza data.
Flu Data
However, The Epoch Times recently obtained a number of internal documents issued by the Chinese regime’s center for disease control and health departments in 2019 and 2020 that had not been disclosed to the public. Given the WHO team’s previous statements to the media, they likely did not see the data either.
The Epoch Times has reached out to the WHO for comment.
The documents recorded sharp increases in influenza cases and clustered fever outbreaks of an unidentified pathogen, as well as a large cache of influenza monitoring data collected by the regime.
One of the documents is the 12th issue in 2019 of the “Infectious Disease Epidemic Information” of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Meihekou City in Jilin Province. It reports: “[Influenza] This month [December], 234 cases were reported, with an incidence rate of 40.70/100,000, an increase of 11600.00% compared with the previous month. An increase of 46.25% when compared with the same period in the previous year.”
Another document is a report of recent influenza epidemic prevention and control recommendations issued by the Beijing Chaoyang District Public Health Management Committee on Dec. 6, 2019. It revealed an increase in influenza infection in Chaoyang district between Sept. 1, 2019 and Dec. 5, 2019. During those three months, there were four outbreaks of fever in clusters, of which one was an adenovirus outbreak, one was caused by parainfluenza, and the other two had “no common respiratory pathogens detected.”
CCP leader Xi Jinping inspected the epidemic prevention work in Chaoyang district in February 2020, where multiple outbreaks of COVID-19 occurred last year.
