China is posting the steepest drop in Covid deaths among more than 20 places hit hardest by Omicron, reviving questions about its virus data and the true impact of the reopening wave as Beijing works to move on from the pandemic. Know more:
China is posting the steepest drop in Covid deaths among more than 20 places hit hardest by Omicron, reviving questions about its virus data and the true impact of the reopening wave as Beijing works to move on from the pandemic.
“It’s not the typical pattern that you would expect in a country like China,” said Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. “China’s population is several times of the US level, so you would expect the actual death toll would be higher, much higher.”
“China is exceptional in the pace of reduction of Covid-related deaths,” said Zuo-Feng Zhang, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “I would expect the reduction of mortality a slower pace” because of China’s size and the uneven distribution of infections across different-sized cities and rural areas, he wrote in an e-mail.
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