“Combined with the zero-Covid strategy, the paradoxical result of this ineffective vaccination effort has been to make the Chinese population more vulnerable to Covid-19 than almost any other population on earth,” Foreign Affairs reports.
“A rough estimate of clinical data, for example, suggests that no more than a small fraction of one percent of the Chinese population has acquired natural immunity through a prior infection.”
“Such a large ‘virgin’ population in China means the Omicron variant could potentially multiply and spread unhindered. Unless China abandons the zero-Covid mentality, it may have to adopt ever more draconian social controls until the virus completely disappears or face an Omicron tsunami of almost unimaginable proportions.”
Ezekiel Emanuel and Michael Osterholm: China’s zero-Covid policy is a pandemic waiting to happen.
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