Shanghai reopens after suppressing COVID: A triumph for science and public health
www.wsws.org
The effective action in China’s largest city saved countless lives and proved the correctness and viability of the country’s zero-COVID policy.

"China’s largest city, Shanghai, largely reopened Wednesday morning after a two-month lockdown that successfully beat back an outbreak of the virulent Omicron BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19. The event was a triumph of public health mobilization, as the outbreak, which reached a peak of almost 30,000 infections per day in mid-April, took the lives of fewer than 600 [!!] people, mostly elderly and unvaccinated."

  • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    If I read one more Economist article talking about how many day now the zero-covid strategy is going to destroy the entire Chinese economy, I will [REDACTED] !