CCP Media Removes Expert’s View to Meet Zero-COVID Policy Needs

Required analysis concentrating on severity of the variant

Aerial view of people queuing up for COVID-19 PCR testing in Tianjin, China, on Jan. 20, 2022. VCG/VCG via Getty Images

While the new COVID-19 variants are widely recognized to cause mild symptoms, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) media has to say otherwise.

An analysis of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant done by a Chinese expert and published by CCTV on July 11 a CCP state media agency was removed and replaced with a different analysis that concentrated on the severity of the variant.