✎ I figure that this is an important gambit in Trump’s playbook. He’s showing how unreliable China’s statistics are by demonstrating the extent to which a great country like the US can be hit by the epidemic. With that borne in mind, we could somewhat conceive of what China has actually undergone over past months regardless of their avowed feats in media coverage.

☞ U.S. passes Italy, China as nation with the most confirmed cases of COVID-19 on USA Today