China's move to dismantle its strict COVID regime, which unleashed the virus onto its 1.4 billion residents, could have led to nearly 2 million excess deaths in the following two months, a US study shows.
  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    103·
    1 year ago

    As sad and sobering as this is, it does mean their very strict quarantine was effective in delaying the deaths of 2M people for 2-3 years.

    That’s 75,000 lives* worth of time saved. (80 years per life estimate)

    • Wisely@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I am curious how high the total amount is considering that is just in a one month period. December-January.

    • cyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      They probably saved many more lives than that. They largely bypassed the Delta variant, which I think was the most murderous Covid wave globally.