China’s top medical experts recently published a research report showing that people in Shanghai who were infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 only had mild symptoms. The report was later deleted as it goes against the regime’s “zero-COVID” policy and harsh lockdown measures. Experts believe it also reflects intensified CCP infighting.
A team, led by Shanghai-based expert virologist Zhang Wenhong and Ma Xin, published a research report in an English national public health bulletin called “China CDC Weekly” on June 18. It said that during the COVID outbreak in Shanghai from March 22 to May 3 this year, the overall rate of COVID-19 patients infected with Omicron having severe symptoms was 0.065 percent. The severe rate of non-high-risk groups was zero, while the high-risk group was 0.238 percent. The high-risk group was defined as patients older than 60, or those with various chronic diseases or immunodeficiency….