China’s Great Wall of Public-Health Distrust
19 May 2024
China’s urban populations have been enduring some of the most intense infection-prevention measures of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For 60 straight days, Shanghai’s 27 million residents were forced into a strict lockdown – and they were not alone.
During the peak of the Omicron BA.2 wave in April and May, 45 cities with a total of 373 million people were under some sort of lockdown.
That is more than the combined populations of the United States (329.5 million) and Canada (38 million), and 83% of the population of the European Union (447 million).
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