China’s coronavirus statistics have been in question from day one. Do 21 million recently closed cell phone accounts indicate a higher death toll than admitted? Does China really have no new cases? The world would really like to know. (For breaking news on China, follow Jennifer Zeng on YouTube or Twitter, where she was first to report the cell phone usage drop on March 20.)

Some may recall seeing the following footage of piles of cell phones purportedly from a Wuhan crematorium circulating in February. Many believed that footage to be fake, but one has to wonder…