SO WE HAVE BETTER DATA ON FACTORY PRODUCTION THAN ON EPIDEMIOLOGY IN CHINA. WHAT DOES THIS TELL US:
Note: This isn’t a PR effort to hurt Trump politically. Domestic talk in the US may be, but this reality is too expensive to the Chinese to be fake.
UPDATE: Similar thoughts from Richard Fernandez.
MORE: (Via the comments): China’s factory activity plunges to all-time low, worse than global financial crisis, February data show.