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It would be useful to have some insight on laboratory capacity and standardized virus assay methods in China. It seems that the ability to classify co-morbidity related deaths as attributable to the virus or not, the conversion of suspected to confirmed cases, the numbers or recovered, the released numbers of quarantined etc. are all dependent on laboratories scaling up from a few dozen assays per day to thousands of assays per day. The daily statistics look suspicious in terms of fairly consistent growth rates. I don't know of any facility that can scale up with equipment, trained personnel, biohazard facilities, assay protocols for a new virus, quality control quality assurance measures etc in such a short period of time. I suspect the daily statistics are being significantly affected by lack of laboratory capacity across China rather than by actual infection events. It would be helpful to have insights into this issue on Wikipedia as it is highly relevant to the interpretation of the daily statistics. It is reasonable to suspect that laboratory capacity around the globe and standardized assay methods are among the weakest links in understanding and overcoming this virus.