Tag: INSIDE CHINA

Doctors in China’s Countryside Face Wave of COVID-19 Infections With Scarce Medical Resources

China’s COVID-19 infections have rapidly spread to the countryside and small towns and concerns are mounting about the Chinese lunar new year that will fall on Jan. 22, 2023, when a large number of holiday travelers are expected as people return to their hometowns for the celebration. As hospitals in big cities are overwhelmed by…


10 Ways COVID Changed How People Think About Health–Part 2

The following is a continuation of 10 Ways COVID Changed How People Think About Health–Part 1 6. Citizen Researchers The lack of information on COVID-19 and data on vaccine safety and efficacy has left the public with questions. A survey in October 2021 showed that 3 in 4 Americans (76 percent) leave their doctor’s appointment on…


Medical, Funeral Services in China Overwhelmed as COVID Cases Soar

Medical services in China are being overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, with one doctor saying the corridors of his Beijing hospital are full of sick people while more people are lining up outside seeking treatment. “There are so many COVID-infected people now that the hospital corridors are full of patients,” Yang Yun (pseudonym), a doctor at the…


19 Senior Experts of China’s Top Academic Bodies Died in December

In December, 19 experts of China’s top academies, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), died of unspecified “illness,” a statistic that is six times higher than the average number of deaths in the past years. Official reports avoid mentioning the cause of these deaths, in what appears to…


How China Changed its Zero-COVID Policy to a ‘Zero Non-COVID’ Policy

Commentary “Zero non-COVID” is the name that people in China are calling the regime’s new pandemic management policy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has aggressively pushed the whole country towards an all-COVID-positive state. China’s annual rubber-stamp legislature is usually in session during the month of March. It is widely expected that the coming session will…


‘80 Percent of Patients Have Differing Degrees of Pneumonia’: Chinese Doctor

While the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) top health body announced a downgrading of China’s COVID-19 management measures and renamed the Chinese term for COVID, Chinese doctors posted online that the virus has severely impacted the lungs of most of their COVID patients. A respiratory and critical care medicine physician from The First Affiliated Hospital of…


Long List of Obituaries at Peking University as COVID Wreaks Havoc in China

Dozens of Chinese experts and scholars have died in the recent outbreak of COVID-19. On Dec. 22 alone, three obituaries were released by Peking University, a university renowned for its “important and unique contribution” to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In fact, it was through the unusually frequent obituaries released by Peking…


Scholars at Sun Yat-sen University Die Amid Spike in COVID Infections

A number of Chinese experts and scholars—most of them members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—have died in the recent COVID-19 outbreak, including faculty members at Sun Yat-sen University, a major national university in southern China’s Guangdong Province. On Dec. 27, Sun Yat-sen University sent an obituary saying that He Zikun, a professor at the…


COVID-Positive Forced to Work as China’s Pandemic Strategy Collapses

As China experiences a dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases following the sudden reversal of its zero-COVID policies in early December, experts say the situation in the country is almost a mirror image of life under the draconian policies that saw millions in strict lockdowns or quarantine facilities over the past three years. Pandemic policy has…


Overseas Chinese Buyers Rush to Buy Drugs Amid COVID Surge and Medical Shortages

A dramatic surge in COVID cases has plunged cities and towns across China into an extreme shortage of medicines. As millions of Chinese scramble to get their hands on fever reducers, antibiotics, and cough remedies, buyers abroad are rushing to purchase drugs to send back to China. The sweeping purchases are causing alarm in other…