White House does not trust info coming out of China with regard to Coronavirus...

“The @WhiteHouse said this week it does ‘not have high confidence in the information coming out of #China’ regarding the count of #coronavirus cases, a senior administration official told @CNBC.” https://t.co/yAeNxfNDN0

— Andrew Erickson 艾立信 (@AndrewSErickson) February 18, 2020

Hmm. 

We know that China likes to put lipstick on pigs.

What if things are much worse than we're being told?  What if the numbers that are being released are only the tip of the iceberg?

This should be another datapoint to consider when we think about this thing.