‘Crisis of Unseen Scale,’ Experts Warn Deaths in China Easily in Millions

‘Crisis of Unseen Scale,’ Experts Warn Deaths in China Easily in Millions
An ambulance driver walks into the busy emergency area of a hospital on January 13, 2023, in Shanghai, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Marina Zhang
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An expert has dubbed China’s COVID management as a “crisis of a scale unseen since Mao” in regard to its death toll.

In an opinion piece published on Jan. 5, sinologist and military adviser Ben Lowsen warned that Chinese citizens potentially face the country’s largest mass-death event since the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961.
Marina Zhang
Marina Zhang
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Marina Zhang is a health writer for The Epoch Times, based in New York. She mainly covers stories on COVID-19 and the healthcare system and has a bachelors in biomedicine from The University of Melbourne. Contact her at [email protected].
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