Have to wonder if the drop in daily cases actually a drop in infections, or, is it more a case as an upper bound in how many cases can be tested and confirmed on a daily basis.
Of course the numbers are widely believed to be way under-reported, both intentional and not.
But with the daily rate going down from 2900/day to 400/day, I was hoping that they don't under-report more than previously, and the reduction was real, even if the true numbers were 29K/day going down to 4K/day.
On other news, a blogger named Chen Qiushi, who is a lawyer, has made many posts on Wechat about the condition inside Wuhan. He traveled to Wuhan right before the lockdown, and reported many dire conditions in hospitals. People may not know that Youtube and Facebook are not accessible to mainland Chinese. Chen's Wechat account has been deleted, and people reposting his videos also get their account deleted. Yet, some of his videos were sneaked out via VPN, and found its way on to Youtube. The videos were intended for the Chinese, and I do not understand what was said.
One of the videos had English caption, and on Jan 30, Chen talked of terrible conditions inside Wuhan. Medical staff had their phones confiscated, to make sure they could not send out photos. Yet, Chen was able to sneak a short clip of a man sitting dead on a wheelchair in a hospital corridor, while his wife was frantically calling for the morgue to come get him.
Chen also talked of people given IV bags and injection, but there were no hospital beds, so they were waiting outside the hospital with IV bags hanging on trees or makeshift poles. Some were laying inside their cars.
Chen went missing for a week, and his followers and family were worried. The authorities now admitted that he has been taken into quarantine.
See
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/09/asia/wuhan-citizen-journalist-intl-hnk/index.html.
The above CNN article has a link to the Chen's video with English subtitle that I talked about.
