Posted on 01/14/2023 8:52:24 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Hospitals in China recorded roughly 60,000 Covid-related deaths since the government scrapped most of its zero-tolerance pandemic controls in early December, Chinese health authorities said in the first major accounting of the toll exacted by the Omicron wave currently spreading across the country.
China had been criticized by public health experts and epidemiologists—including some at the World Health Organization—for publishing data that routinely showed deaths in the single digits in recent weeks—figures they said grossly underestimated the impact the virus had on the Chinese population.
On Saturday, China’s National Health Commission said the country’s medical institutions registered 59,938 Covid-related deaths from Dec. 8, the day after zero-Covid measures were lifted, to Jan. 12. People over the age of 65 accounted for more than 90% of the deaths, it said.
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I’m sure its more like 600k at this point, and heading for 6 million. Xi decided it was better to cull the population, which will help address the older demographic problem. Added bonus of eliminating the lockdown protests.
...in 35 days.
But if the reports of the numbers of infections (with no time frame given!) are even remotely credible, temporary herd immunity has already been reached, at a low death toll given a ~ 1.5 billion population.
Well, the question is whether COVID continues to disrupt the Chinese economy. Like it or not, that does affect most everyone, sometimes critically, such as in supply shortages of pharmaceuticals.
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