{"id":25356,"date":"2023-01-23T00:56:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=25356"},"modified":"2023-01-23T00:57:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:57:01","slug":"china-says-covid-outbreak-has-infected-80-percent-of-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=25356","title":{"rendered":"China says COVID outbreak has infected 80 percent of population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/1\/22\/china-says-covid-outbreak-has-infected-80-percent-of-population?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/000_337J3WE-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Scientist says Lunar New Year travel rush unlikely to lead to a COVID surge as most people have been infected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/1\/22\/china-says-covid-outbreak-has-infected-80-percent-of-population\">China says COVID outbreak has infected 80 percent of population<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>at the risk of being accused of being too china ositive&#8230;. was this the plan?  drop most preventivie measures, allow travle, etc in early dec., ensureing everyone gets if by now (80% is pretty close, maybe 905 by the time we ghet number for this week of chinese new year.  and what they&#8217;re getting is various omicron strains, so less deadly as we know.    and if 60K is really x100, so 6M,dead, maybe add 1M more for rest of covid, 7M\/1400M = 0.5% population fatality rater; this contrasts with USA (1.1M \/ 340M = 0.3% pop fatality rate. so similar.  but maybe best they could do with theior relaitively crappy vaccine and refusal to use outside, ? this does sound awefully skillfully planned though&#8230;   sadly, it will be difficult to ever know the answer, given the lack of trust or the difficulty trusitng what the chinese say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is because the ongoing wave of the epidemic \u2014 driven mostly by multiple sub-branches of the Omicron strain \u2014 \u201chas already infected 80 percent of the population\u201d, he was quoted as saying on the Weibo social media platform.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/1\/14\/china-reports-almost-60000-covid-related-deaths-in-past-month\">died in hospital<\/a>&nbsp;as of January 12, according to government data, roughly a month after China abruptly dismantled its zero-COVID policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist says Lunar New Year travel rush unlikely to lead to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[150,169,266],"class_list":["post-25356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-covid-19","tag-maybe-good","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}