Researchers worry that ill-prepared healthcare systems, low rates of vaccination among the elderly and ineffective vaccines will contribute to a massive and deadly COVID-19 surge that has already begun overwhelming hospitals in Beijing
, concludes that COVID cases in China will peak around April, at which point there will have been 322,000 COVID-related deaths and a third of the country will be infected. Currently, China’s official death toll remains low at just over 5,000 deaths, compared to the U.S.’s more than one million. However, some question the Chinese government’s count accuracy.
Although about 90% of the country has been vaccinated against COVID-19, China relied on vaccines withthan the mRNA-based vaccines that many other countries sought to produce. Only 65% of people over the age of 80 have been fully vaccinated and just 40% received their booster, a concerningly low rate for the country’s most vulnerable demographic.Zero-COVID
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