Maybe the best HN could do, is to help the WHO to get their Corona Virus content right on top of the Google search results. Also something Google could do.
I do realise that this argument could easily be used as a carte-blanche for making completely baseless claims. But I think the best we can do is use many sources and remain somewhat sceptical of all of them - not necessarily in equal measure.
>Professor Neil Ferguson said coronavirus could be infecting around 50,000 people a day in China.
re the official numbers:
>A steady rate of 3,000 diagnoses per day points to the upper limit of detection kits that are available to the health workers
He runs the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London - not some random crank https://www.ccn.com/professor-says-coronavirus-infecting-500...
Also, one reason people use other than official reports is that some are more often updated or emphasize more interesting details. One that I found good is https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus... which is the one referenced by the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Wuhan_coronavi...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/health/cdc-coronavirus-ch...
EDIT: Counter point to the infected population in the hundreds of thousands you made in the parent.
EDIT 2: Misread 100s or 1000s for hundreds of thousands. So yeah, official numbers.