China COVID-19 News: China’s COVID-19 Crisis Turning Catastrophic, World Should Help Or Else Things Could Backfire Globally!
China COVID-19 News: The COVID-19 situation in China is spiraling out of control with COVID-19 infections rising at an exponential phase and insufficient hospital beds and ICU wards along with a shortage of healthcare staff is adding to growing crisis. Not only is there an acute shortage of medications ranging from basic NSAIDs like Ibuprofen and Tylenol but even common sedative agents used during rapid sequence intubation such as etomidate, ketamine, and propofol along with commonly used neuromuscular blocking agents are succinylcholine and rocuroniumnethetics are in short supply. Basic antibiotics like amoxilicin along with steroids like dexamethasone are also running low.
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Medical devices such as ventilators and infusion pumps are also in short supply along with many other basics.
News reports are emerging that China is trying to set up more hospital beds and also fever clinics fast as cases are increasing across the country.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1282198.shtml
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/china-races-install-hospital-beds-covid-surge-sparks-concern-abroad-2022-12-20/
From now to the end of January 2023, China is expected to record more than 124 million COVID-19 cases with symptoms and 2.7 million Chinese will be in need of ICUs, according to a prediction by experts from the School of Public Health, Fudan University lead by Professor Dr Yu Hongjie.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1282198.shtml
Leading Chinese epidemiologist, Dr Wu Zunyou predicts that China will face three major COVID-19 waves this winter with the first already under way since the lifting of COVID-19 measures and restrictions earlier this month.
This current spike in infections would run until mid-January, while the second wave would then be triggered by mass travel in January around the week-long Lunar New Year celebrations which begin on 21 January 2023. Millions of people usually travel at this time to spend the holiday with family. The third surge in cases would run from late February to mid-March as people return to work after the holiday.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-12-18/China-to-face-three-waves-of-COVID-19-infections-this-winter-Expert-1fRkj43lNmw/index.html
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2022-12-19/china-to-experience-three-waves-of-covid-infections-expert-says-101979591.html
China COVID-19 News reports are showing that the current COVID-19 crisis in the country is literally bring economic activity to a standstill a
s workers and staff of various companies and factories are reporting sick and unable to report to work while shopping malls and public places are becoming deserted.
https://headtopics.com/my/china-s-covid-19-surge-hits-beijing-trading-floors-shanghai-finance-hub-33040141
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/14/china/beijing-zero-covid-easing-streets-impact-intl-hnk-mic/index.html
What is worrying however is that there is currently lack of proper and extensive genomic surveillance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and sub-lineages in China.
Though it is known that a cluster of about 42 variants and sub-lineages are currently circulating in China, with the BF.7 variant being the most predominant followed by BA.5.1.7 and BR.2 variants, it is believed that many new sub-lineages of even the BF.7 variant is emerging with worrisome mutations on them as there seems to be an increase in disease severity being observed in certain provinces and cities in China at the moment.
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-news-china-joins-the-united-states,-united-kingdom,-canada-and-india-in-underreporting-covid-19-infections,-hospitalizations-and-deaths
Although China has not appealed for any aid or humanitarian help, no country so far has volunteered to help with the donation of medical supplies such as necessary drugs or medical devices to China. There is even a need to help China get more genomic testing platforms in place t monitor the virus evolution.
In the beginning of the pandemic, China did help out many countries with various medical supplies, test kits and also drugs.
But now, we are now instead seeing many Westerners posting nasty remarks and rejoicing about the state that China is in without realizing that whatever that is brewing in China is most likely to spread back to their own home countries, most likely with a worse impact!
It is time that the world put aside all differences and learn to work together as we are really entering a very critical stage of the COVID-19 pandemic and despite whatever garbage some ruthless political leaders or ignorant health authorities are saying that the virus is becoming mild or that we are entering an endemic or that we have to learn to live with SARS-CoV-2, millions are expected to die in 2023 with constant onslaught of various SARS-CoV-2 variants and sub-lineages along with new strains of other pathogens arising due to the SARS-CoV-2 induced change of the global human immune landscape. We can also expect more pathogenic and virulent SARS-CoV-2 variants and sub-lineages in 2023 based on the current kinetics of the pandemic.
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