[songco]

From 20+ of my friends in Wuhan, the numbers most likely correct. And in my city, a small city in China with about 3M population, there's about 100 total confirmed cases in the past 2 months, there's news spreaded in local social network for every case before official confirmation. IMO, it's very hard to hide numbers.

In early stage of Wuhan(Jan 2020), there's hiding numbers, and there's lots 'rumours' widely spreaded on social network, e.g. Lots messages from medical staffs in Wuhan, so we known the numbers of Wuhan is not correct. But in recent weeks there's no such 'rumours', the gov may have strong control on many things, but it's not possible to control all(most?) 'rumours'..