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Oh, while we are collecting failures, going from “the entire city is in home-prision, we will incompetently handle the fundamental needs like food and water” directly into “whatever! you can kill yourselves for all that I care!” without any hint of even looking into a reasonable policy looks like a huge failure all by itself.
Any country that tried to help its people fared better. That’s by necessity, because those policies weren’t made for that.
It’s almost as if the rush to end COVID protections in order to protect corporate profits was a bad idea.
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They probably saved many more lives than that. They largely bypassed the Delta variant, which I think was the most murderous Covid wave globally.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reuters) - China’s abrupt move to dismantle its strict COVID-19 regime, which unleashed the virus onto its 1.4 billion residents, could have led to nearly 2 million excess deaths in the following two months, a new U.S. study shows.
It found an estimated 1.87 million excess deaths from all causes occurred among people over 30 years of age between December 2022 and January 2023, and were observed in all provinces in mainland China except Tibet.
China’s decision last December to end the three-year zero-COVID policy, which included mass-testing and stringent and persistent quarantine lockdowns, led to a massive surge in hospitalisations and deaths that health experts say were largely unreported by the government.
The study, published on Thursday in JAMA Network Open, said the number of excess deaths far exceeded official Chinese government estimates in January that 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since the zero-COVID policy was abandoned a month earlier.
Global health experts repeatedly called on China to reveal more data as reports of rising hospitalisations and deaths started to surface, and especially as the threat of new variants became a concern.
“The National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention said the proportion of the new variant EG.5 increased from 0.6% in April to 71.6% in August, becoming the dominant strain in most provinces in China,” the Global Times reported.
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