While Chinese officials report the official number of deaths at 1,016 and just over 42,000 infected, there is plenty of evidence - including testing constraints and reports of overloaded crematoriums - that this is a lie, and that things are far worse than we are being told.

Risking their lives to bring us the truth are on-scene journalists - both professional and amateur, as no major news organizations have reporters in the field. According to the New York Post, "One crematorium manager told a Hong Kong reporter that, in normal times, his 24 ovens were lit five days a week for four hours at a time. Now, he said, they have so many corpses to deal with that all the ovens are going around the clock. This suggests the body count must be in the thousands."

In response to 'non-approved' reporting, Beijing said that its censors would conduct "targeted supervision" across all social media platforms within their reach

With the epidemic spreading throughout China, the Ministry of Public Security, which controls all of the police departments in the country, has swung into action. A Feb. 28 directive ordered all police throughout the country to make "wartime preparations."