China\u0027s abrupt lifting of stringent COVID\u002D19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023.
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“Nobody thought they would stick to zero-COVID as long as they did,” Murray said on Friday when the IHME projections were released online.Article contentChina’s zero-COVID policy may have been effective at keeping earlier variants of the virus at bay, but the high transmissibility of Omicron variants made it impossible to sustain, he said.
“China has since the original Wuhan outbreak barely reported any deaths. That is why we looked to Hong Kong to get an idea of the infection fatality rate,” Murray said.
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