Study shows what would happen if China dealt with Covid like US — Analysis

According to a study, China would experience hundreds of thousands of infections daily if it abandoned its zero-Covid-19 economic policy. Peking University researchers in Beijing made the unsettling prediction. They crunched numbers to determine how large a Covid-19 outbreak China could experience if they adopted policies similar to those of Western countries. The prediction was made using factors like vaccination uptake and population density. References were taken from the USA, UK, Israel and Spain. Beijing's current approach aimed at preventing domestic circulation of the virus includes the strict control of international travel and the imposition of quarantines to stamp out…