“Has there been any sudden rise in people dying across America?”
Actually we have no idea of that either.
Give it another month or six weeks to see.
It takes nearly a month for this virus to kill.
I am worried by the SCMP article saying it wasn’t a seafood market incident.
they aren’t getting ready to confess anything was their fault, imho. this is setting up a narrative to blame a 3rd party, and the only possible response to such a narrative is to go to war with the country they blame.