‘80 Percent of Patients Have Differing Degrees of Pneumonia’: Chinese Doctor

Patients wait to see a doctor at a fever clinic at the Dongguan People's Hospital in Dongguan, Guangdong Province in China, on Dec. 20, 2022. VCG/VCG via Getty Images

While the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) top health body announced a downgrading of China’s COVID-19 management measures and renamed the Chinese term for COVID, Chinese doctors posted online that the virus has severely impacted the lungs of most of their COVID patients.

A respiratory and critical care medicine physician from The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University posted on Weibo on Dec. 28 that among the 60 patients he saw in the outpatient clinic, “80 percent had pneumonia of differing degrees.”