More than a month after China started seeing an exponential surge in Covid cases, the country has only reported two virus deaths, defying the experience of other. Know more:
More than a month after China started seeing an exponential surge in Covid cases, the country has only reported two virus deaths, defying the experience of other, more vaccinated and better resourced places as they reopened and fueling suspicion the true scale of fatalities is being hidden.
“The very few Covid deaths reported so far are suspiciously low,” said William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University’s medical school in Tennessee. He said a rapid increase in infections is typically followed by a rise in Covid-related deaths a week or two later. That’s stoked speculation officials and hospitals may be attributing deaths from the virus to other ailments as outbreaks mushroom, with Caixin reporting that China had narrowed guidelines for what counts as a Covid death. New guidance was issued on Dec. 6 that notes that some patients who were Covid-positive died from underlying illness, and medical facilities have 24 hours to ascertain a person’s cause of death, it said, without saying where it got the information.
It’s in China’s interests to obscure or downplay the death toll, given the way it’s approached Covid from the time it emerged.
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