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."

  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Times reporters even found one Shanghai graduate student who told them, “I feel like that harm from the pandemic measures is worse than the harm of the virus itself.” The reporters were apparently tasked to find at least one person out of a billion in China to echo the words of Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who inaugurated the US campaign against lockdowns two years ago by warning “the cure can’t be worse than the disease."

    :michael-laugh: :xi-lib-tears: