On New Year’s Day in the locked-down Chinese city of Xi’an, an eight-month pregnant woman miscarried while waiting in the freezing cold outside of a hospital door. She was denied entry because her negative COVID-19 test result was invalid by a few hours. She had one hand supporting her belly as she leaned her body on the edge of a tiny pink stool outside the Xi’an Gaoxin hospital. Blood trickled down, forming a small red pool at her feet. “Wait”—was the one-word reply from the hospital authorities when asked by a staff member about the woman, according to Chinese media reports. The woman was kept waiting there for two hours. When the hospital eventually relented and admitted her to emergency care, it was too late. The woman had lost her baby. Her ordeal, footage of which was posted on China’s Twitter-like Weibo, ignited an outpouring of anger and anguish from …