I think what they are not telling us is the reason. I think that China probably had a million deaths already and they are lying about the numbers.
This is the only thing that makes sense. But its countered by the S. Korean experience.
they also sent 759,000 people to the united states during Dec & Jan.
I don’t trust the Chinese
Or they had hardly any but made it look like they had a lot by shutting out the press and releasing phony staged videos with guys in scary bio-gear and telling us they built giant hospitals in 3 days. Then after the panic ensued all of a sudden they stopped having new cases and went back to work, but left the US in the chaos that it is in now? Mission accomplished.