An expert has dubbed China’s COVID management as a “crisis of a scale unseen since Mao” in regard to its death toll.
In an opinion piece published on Jan. 5, sinologist and military adviser Ben Lowsen warned that Chinese citizens potentially face the country’s largest mass-death event since the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961.
Chinese officials revealed on Jan. 14 that there have been 59,938 COVID-related deaths from Dec. 9, 2022, to Jan. 12, 2023.
Yet health experts including virologist Dr. Xiaoxu Sean Lin and Stanford Senior Fellow Dr. Scott Atlas are concerned that the numbers may still be underreported.
While this increase seems more reasonable than the 37 deaths previously reported during that timeframe, Lin expressed that a death toll of roughly 60,000 does not justify the reports of inundated morgues….