![]() The stark rise in COVID-19 cases is likely to be followed by an increase in hospitalizations and deaths. If we’ve learned anything, it’s that the virus has an extraordinary ability to adapt - and is unpredictable.īut now, China’s aggressive policies are no match for the highly infectious Omicron variant. Omicron won’t be the last coronavirus variant to haunt us China has been able to resume societal and economic activities for periods between lockdowns, even as some have criticized the intensity of its lockdowns as draconian. Since the start of the pandemic, about 3 per million Chinese have died compared with approximately 3,000 per million Americans. China has relied on Chinese-made vaccines, produced either by inactivating the SARS-CoV-2 virus or by using a benign adenovirus (a common virus type) as a vector.Ĭhina’s aggressive approach has been associated with substantially lower morbidity and mortality compared with many Western countries, which largely have had no overarching COVID strategy. The mainstay of the Chinese pandemic control policy has been its “zero COVID” approach of using aggressive lockdowns, widespread asymptomatic testing, prevalent masking and vaccination. This is an ominous development in a country that has, so far, effectively controlled the pandemic virus that first emerged within its borders. ![]() Two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, China has placed many areas - including two of its largest cities, Shanghai and Shenzhen - back into lockdown for its worst outbreaks since 2020.
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