Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci highlighted the need to keep mitigation efforts going into the future. NEW YORK - As coronavirus cases have jumped in recent days, China misled the world by purposely underreporting its numbers of patients and deaths, three U.S.
intelligence officials say. In a classified report sent to the White House, the officials said that China's public record of COVID-19 infections was deliberately deceptive and incomplete. RELATED: US death toll from COVID-19 eclipses China's official count Bloomberg, which first reported the news, cited three U.S.
intelligence officers who they said they alerted the White House last week to Beijing's misleading numbers. Two of the three sources called the numbers flat-out fake.