[ceejayoz]

https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/25/new-data-from-china-butt...

> But on Tuesday, a World Health Organization expert suggested that does not appear to be the case. Bruce Aylward, who led an international mission to China to learn about the virus and China’s response, said the specialists did not see evidence that a large number of mild cases of the novel disease called Covid-19 are evading detection.

> “So I know everybody’s been out there saying, ‘Whoa, this thing is spreading everywhere and we just can’t see it, tip of the iceberg.’ But the data that we do have don’t support that,” Aylward said during a briefing for journalists at WHO’s Geneva headquarters.

[chrisseaton]

Your own link says that this is a highly controversial point of view, not agreed with by other experts.

[ceejayoz]

The point is it’s apparently not a settled matter.