Therefore, The Berman Law Group filed a collective federal claim against the Popular Republic of China, the province of Hubei, the city of Wuhan, and various ministers of the Chinese government, in the name of the residents and companies of the United States of America and the State of Florida. They are looking for a compensation of thousands of millions of dollars in compensatory damage for those who have suffered personal injury, death by negligence, damage to property and other kinds of damage due to the lack of efforts in China to contain the coronavirus, although a contention in its early stages of propagation would have been possible, according to the firm. As the attorneys of The Berman Law Group have stated in their complaint, Chinese officials knew before the 3^rd of January that COVID-19 was transmitted from human to human, and that patients started to die a couple of days after the infection. Nevertheless, the Chinese government kept telling the people in Wuhan and the world in general that everything was fine; they even held a public dinner in Wuhan for more than 40.000 families on the 18^th of January.

The outbreak was already initiated by then, probably even much earlier. From November on, the virus was already circulating through this densely populated Chinese city, without the regimen doing anything to control it. To the contrary, as the first doctors reported the outbreak of the virus, Peking ordered their arrest and a censure of their findings.

Ex-senator of Florida, Joseph Abruzzo, stated that the virus could have been contained, while the Chinese officials tried to present a positive story about the epidemic, only for the economic interest of China. Instead of reacting quickly and informing about the outbreak of the dangerous virus, China waited seventeen critical days before they shared the sequence of the COVID-19 genome with other nations, as clearly stated in the collective claim. As a result, there is a huge number of mortal victims due to the pandemic today, and the normal life is almost completely detained in most parts of the world.

Russell Berman, cofounder of the The Berman Group, says that he is aware that the claim is ambitious as it is made against a global superpower. Nevertheless, as China has untied a pandemic that affects the whole world and the damage is exponentially multiplied every day in the US and Florida, the firm is not afraid to face them and obtain the deserved justice. It is the Chinese government who should be paying for the damage, as an economic stimulus to the US and the American people.

As of today, the United States are by far the world´s most affected nation in numbers of infections and deaths, with more than 644.000 cases and over 28.000 deaths. All of the 50 states of the US are affected, and severe lockdown measures have been taken in most states.