Shanghai hospital warns of "tragic battle" as COVID cases surge across China

oh China is on the brink of a Covid-19 storm, possibly the largest since the pandemic began three years ago. It is estimated that the country is experiencing at least one million infections and 5,000 deaths each day. The figures come from research Affinity has been tracking. Since the pandemic emerged, some Chinese cities have been handing out free anti-fever medicines as waves of infections sweep through

hospital

s. The country's abrupt U-turn on a zero-concealment policy earlier this month has caught the health care system and now medical workers off guard. are preparing for a

battle

as patients crowd the hallways of Beijing's Chao Young Hospital.

The facility sees about 400 patients daily, 10 times more than earlier this month, many of them are elderly with fever symptoms in addition to pre-existing conditions, doctors say some are in serious condition as more residents seek help Medically, Beijing authorities are asking

hospital

s to set up makeshift clinics and stadiums to treat young and elderly patients without underlying illnesses. Viva is plaguing many people as Covid-19 spreads and cities are responding by sending millions of ibuprofen tablets to medical institutions, some pharmacies are providing up to 10 tablets per day to residents who present an ID card, but there are concerns the virus is killing more people than reported authorities report no new covert deaths, but funeral home workers say demand has jumped last week Witnesses in Beijing claim at least 40 horses were queuing to enter a crematorium and to learn more about the Covid-19 situation in China, watching your young living join your life from Chongqing Olivia, why does China seem unprepared for this? increase in infections, well, we demand, we have to point out that infections are expected from a

surge

on, as we have seen in the experience of other countries that have gone from living with the virus and this is what we are seeing in China, However, the question is whether China had been prepared for this given what we are seeing on the ground today: a hospital in Shanghai posted an article on its WeChat account telling its staff to prepare for a

tragic

battle

, as expected 12.5 million people in the city.

That means half of the city's population will be infected with the virus by the end of the year. Several experts I have spoken to have pointed out several reasons why we are seeing what we are seeing, one of them is due to risk communication, since Until recently, people who had been infected with the virus had been sent to hospitals or some type of health care facility and now, as they become more infected, they are going to the hospital and fever clinics more for medication, even though they may have milder symptoms. Putting pressure on the healthcare system, another factor has been that the openness seen in China has been a top-down approach and local governments have had to implement guidelines ordered by central authorities and three years into the pandemic. have been stretched, so the timing is not the best either, given that there have been disruptions in supply chains, including the health sector, as some experts tell me, also because the seasonal flu is circulating and that continues to put pressure on the healthcare system, but Another expert also noted that perhaps China had not been prepared for the end of the zero greed policy, as we have seen in the rhetoric that it considered this a sustainable approach, but we must remember that this relaxation of its measures occurred later.

Seeing or continuing to increase infections despite strict measures and also as we have seen those protests in various parts of the city against the zero greed policy, some analysts tell me that perhaps it was more of a decision that was made to address the economic situation. The consequences of the zero greed policy without taking as much into account the health considerations that we heard earlier in the report before moving on to concerns about death figures, possibly more than what we are officially hearing, another issue raised by the Organization World Health Organization, the lack of country data what is the concern here well, whose concern is very simple without this data is to be able to make a comprehensive assessment of the situation in China also with respect to the number of deaths, the number of deaths here in China be seen as lower than what many other countries have reported.

Experts I have spoken to also believe that deaths in the country are more than reported, especially since we have seen reports from various media outlets. I know funeral homes are busy and are also reporting more deaths of their family members, deaths that were attributable to covert causes not associated with them, for example, if you die in a car accident but have a clear coverup, that would not be attributable. If you have some kind of acute pneumonia and that's covered and it's a purely respiratory death, then obviously that's clearly the cause, but then it gets a little blurry because there could be a minor respiratory illness that causes a heart attack. a covert death, uh or not, and that's where some countries have varied.

I personally think China's definition seems pretty narrow if they're not going to consider pre-existing conditions as important because obviously, carrying pre-existing conditions would almost make you very likely to die from hidden causes, so whether they're going to count those people or not? , I'm not sure foreigners are talking about the questions that have been raised about how China classifies greed deaths, as health authorities here have said that only those who die from respiratory failure or pneumonia are considered deaths. coveted, while those with underlying conditions are not classified as such and that has led to questions about the number of deaths in China;

The projected number of deaths in some studies is expected to exceed one million next year. year oh thank you but watching is Oliver's song that speaks to us live from