China Risks Covid Surge Under Relaxed Restrictions, According to This Study. What Some Experts Are Saying. | Barron's

International experts are questioning the validity of a Chinese study claiming that the country would experience a "colossal outbreak" of coronavirus cases if it abandoned its "zero-Covid" policy and relaxed restrictions as many advanced economies have done. Researchers at China's prestigious Peking University recently published a report in a Chinese CDC journal using mathematical models estimating the toll the country could face if it opened up to the same degree as five comparison countries—the U.S., the United Kingdom,…