What are you interpreting that on, the WHO stats fairly clearly indicate that infection rates in China continue to drop and are a fraction of what they were 3-4 weeks ago. That's deceleration to me.
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The rate of infection is dropping but the coughulative number of people who are infected isn't as is the total number of people infected at the moment? and clearly the coughulative total of people who have died isn't going to reduce either.
i.e are you saying (and I'm picking round numbers here) that if China had 20,000 cases in Week X, in Week Y they are saying they have 10,000 cases (so in effect, 10K people are 'cured/not sick anymore') and no new people have been infected ? I don't think that's what is happening.
Week 1 they had 10K
Week 2 they had 11K (+1K)
Week 3 they had 13K (+2K)
Week 4 they had 20K (+7K)
was the original trend.
My reading was that the rate of infection is dropping but not the actual number of cases.
I'm not saying this is a bad thing at all and it clearly helps a lot - but it isn't to the point where the problem is going away any time soon (but clearly if infection rates are dropping, it is going to go away at some point).
Of course the other factor is that you do have to believe the data coming out of China. The same people who provided data at the start that said there was no COVID19 issue at all and anyone who said otherwise was making things up and asking for trouble.
I would like to think I have a healthy degree of scepticism on their numbers as there's little you can do to prove them either way (and before you ask, no, not a criticism of the WHO, simply noting they have to get their data from the Chinese government.. there are no independent health numbers)