- HK, SG, KR, and JP have similar trends.
- No "patriotic virus" -- infecting Chinese only after leaving China.
- Limited spread / impacts outside Hubei.
- Lifting quarantine.
Testing numbers are all but certainly low, but given shitshows elsewhere (IT, US, PH, DE, ES, likely IN and others), due to logistics and limitations. Comprehensive population antibody testing should be interesting.
But what China's data can tell, is that there is a strategy out there to contain the virus, if implemented. And it takes about 2 months of total lockdown. It is probably the most effective containment in human history, but with a cost.
So the exact number of China's data isn't going to be meaningful to others, but the actions taken have implications and we should follow.
We know for a fact there were some early suppression of the outbreak, so it wouldn't be too much to speculate that they're under-reporting new cases and/or over-reporting recoveries.
Even if so, there's the problem that totalitarian, high-control societies like China have tools to deal with these kinds of problems that other societies do not.. to put it lightly.