Study: No evidence of manipulation of Chinese Covid-19 data

In this Feb 13, 2020, photo, a doctor checks the conditioN of a patient in Jinyintan Hospital, designated for critical Covid-19 patients, in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Chinese data from February had already shown the effectiveness of the quarantine measures in slowing the progress of the disease, both within Hubei and in other Chinese provinces.- AP

BEIJING (Xinhua): There is no evidence of manipulation of China's Covid-19 data using Benford's law, and its data should be used not only for calibration of models to inform policy measures to slow infection, but also guide policy in other countries, researchers have claimed.

The study dated Tuesday (April 28) was conducted by Christoffer Koch, a senior research economist at the Federal Research Bank of Dallas and Ken Okamura, a researcher with the University of Oxford's Said Business School.