“Other large cities such as Shanghai seem to be experiencing COVID-19 spikes, though not quite on the scale of Beijing’s. As home tests run out and government testing becomes even more difficult to obtain, many Chinese are left guessing as to what’s causing their fever and coughs, especially given the other winter viruses going around.”

China’s Great COVID-19 Wave Has Begun

“Other large cities such as Shanghai seem to be experiencing COVID-19 spikes, though not quite on the scale of Beijing’s. As home tests run out and government testing becomes even more difficult to obtain, many Chinese are left guessing as to what’s causing their fever and coughs, especially given the other winter viruses going around.” China’s Great COVID-19 Wave Has Begun With zero-COVID effectively over, official numbers can’t keep up with the speed of the omicron variant. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/14/china-covid-beijing-outbreak-wave/

David

They’re calling it a tripledemic in the west.  If there are indeed different strains of CoVID spreading around China, does that count as even more?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/us/covid-flu-rsv-tripledemic-data.html

They’re calling it a tripledemic in the west.  If there are indeed different strains of CoVID spreading around China, does that count as even more?  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/us/covid-flu-rsv-tripledemic-data.html

Hospitalizations for respiratory illnesses are at high levels for this time of year, disrupting seasonal patterns and making it hard to predict how bad this winter will be.

David

A group of likeminded people in China Covid Curated are talking about this.