In more than three decades working in emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein has never seen anything like this.
abc.net.au/news/medical-staff-say-china-covid-overwhelmed-icu-healthcare-/101809678In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein says he has never seen anything like this.Nurses have been told to work even if they test positive and have a mild fever
Mr Bernstein's account reflects the testimonies of medical staff across China who are scrambling to cope after an abrupt U-turn to relax COVID policies this month triggered a wave of infections nationwide.It is by far the country's biggest outbreak since the pandemic began in the central city of Wuhan three years ago.
"They want the medicine like a replacement of the vaccine, but the medicine does not replace the vaccine," she said.In Beijing, some fear the worst is yet to come.Dr Jutard-Bourreau, who like Dr Bernstein had been working in China for around a decade, fears the worst of this wave in Beijing is yet to come.
Along with nurses at other hospitals, she said they had been told to work even if they tested positive and had a mild fever.
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