China hid data showing severity of COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak

According to three U.S. officials, China hid data showing severity of COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, under-reporting both the total cases and deaths the socialist authoritarian country experienced, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report.
Nick Wadhams and Jennifer Jacobs for Bloomberg News:The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret and declined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China’s public reporting on cases an