George Calhoun, director of the quantitative finance programme at Stevens Institute of Technology, has alleged the regime has likely recorded fewer deaths in a systematic data suppression in a bid to keep its political image untarnished.

The expert, who has studied data generated by a model developed by The Economist, claimed to The Epoch Times that China's official figures are "statistically impossible".

Since April 2020, when the majority of fatalities were reported in Wuhan, just 2 deaths have been officially recorded by authorities in Beijing - ranking China as having the fewest Covid related deaths in the world.

"That’s impossible. It’s medically impossible, it’s statistically impossible," Mr Calhoun told the outlet.

“Remember, in 2020, there was no vaccine, there was no treatment. So you had an unprotected population that has shown zero Covid deaths, even though they’ve had tens of thousands of cases.”

The difference in mortality rates is even more shocking. The Chinese government reports a Covid death rate overall of 0.321 per 100,000 population. The U.S. Covid death rate is 248 per 100,000 population – 800 times higher.

China has even constructed a network of massive quarantine camps where thousands face isolation in tiny metal boxes as part of the Communist Party's ruthless and overblown "Zero Covid" strategy where one case is enough to spark a crackdown.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2022/01/02/beijing-is-intentionally-underreporting-chinas-covid-death-rate-part-1/?sh=3628e3354352