In the "WHO-convened global study of origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part" WHO claims:

“The documented rapid increase in all-cause mortality and pneumonia-specific deaths in the third week of 2020 indicated that virus transmission was widespread among the population of Wuhan by the first week of 2020.

The steep increase in mortality that occurred one to two weeks later among the population in the Hubei Province outside Wuhan suggested that the epidemic in Wuhan preceded the spread in the rest of Hubei Province."

In this thread I will show that this claim is contradicted by their own data.

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First, the "steep increase" in figure 19 does not appear to be significant.

Second, look at the Y axis on figures 17 and 19: They're off by a factor of 10.

WHO: steepening the curve with Y-axis manipulation.

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