Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese towns

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Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China\u0027s industrial Hebei province, southwest of Beijing.

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“I’m furious,” Yao said, tearing up, as she clutched the lung scans from the local hospital. “I don’t have much hope. We’ve been out for a long time and I’m terrified because she’s having difficulty breathing.” People wait outside a fever clinic at a hospital as coronavirus disease outbreak continues, in Shanghai, China December 24, 2022. REUTERS/Staff

The ICU was so crowded, ambulances were turned away. A medical worker shouted at relatives wheeling in a patient from an arriving ambulance. At a crematorium in Gaobeidian, about 20 kilometers south of Zhuozhou, the body of one 82-year-old woman was brought from Beijing, a two-hour drive, because funeral homes in China’s capital were packed, according to the woman’s grandson, Liang.

“There’s been a lot!” a worker said when asked about the number of COVID-19 deaths, before funeral director Ma Xiaowei stepped in and brought the journalists to meet a local government official. “There’s no so-called explosion in cases, it’s all under control,” said Wang Ping, the administrative manager of Gaobeidian Hospital, speaking by the hospital’s main gate. “There’s been a slight decline in patients.”

“There are more people with fevers, the number of patients has indeed increased,” Sun said. She hesitated, then added, “I can’t say whether I’ve become even busier or not. Our emergency department has always been busy.” Guards worked to corral the crowds as people jostled for positions. With no space in the ward, patients spilled into corridors and hallways. Sick people sprawled on blankets on the floor as staff frantically wheeled gurneys and ventilators. In a hallway, half a dozen patients wheezed on metal benches as oxygen tanks pumped air into their noses.

 

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When covid first arrived China had a vaccine they were going to produce in Canada but it failed because of the 2 micheals fiasco. Glad it fell through in hindsight as the vaccine is not as good. witness today. Never do business with the Chinese your dealing communists.

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