A PUBLIC Health Scientist and an epidemiologist of the COVID Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute, Eric Liang Feigl-Ding has reported that China is facing a worse Corona Virus wave than that of the past, which has left many people dead and hospitals running out of medications.
Ding took to Twitter to say: “I want to remind folks that Beijing has some of the best hospitals in China. And yet, at this top tier level A hospital, they still ran out of beds and oxygen tanks. This story is harrowing, thousands of patients die in 15 minutes of ICU arrival.”
Chinese govt’s own chief epidemiologist says the worst is yet to come. And workers moving dead bodies in the video say they are all COVID deaths. Crematoriums also are overloaded.
Recently, the World Health Organization expressed concern about reports of severe disease in China. Around the cities of Baoding and Langfang outside Beijing, hospitals have run out of intensive care beds and staff as severe cases surge.
China’s plan to track the virus centers around three city hospitals in each province, where samples will be collected from walk-in patients who are very sick and all those who die every week, Xu Wenbo of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said at a briefing on Sunday.
“50 of the 130 omicron versions detected in China had resulted in outbreaks. The country is creating a national genetic database “to monitor in real time” how different strains were evolving and the potential implications for public health”.
“At this point, however, there’s limited information about genetic viral sequencing coming out of China, said Jeremy Luban, a virologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School”, he added.
“We don’t know all of what’s going on,” Luban said. But clearly, “the pandemic is not over.”
