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What is the actual COVID-19 death toll in China?

COVID-19 appears to be rampant across much of China, but the government is reporting impossibly low numbers for both cases and deaths.

Lily Kuo, China bureau chief at the Washington Post, joins Here & Now‘s Scott Tong.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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