China’s rapid COVID spike could crash public health system

The World

China has shifted away from stringent COVID-19 restrictions, but without turning to mitigation strategies, like mandatory masking. Now, waves of new infections threaten to overwhelm the country’s health care system, as Ben Cowling, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Hong Kong, tells The World’s host Marco Werman.

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