China’s Health Services Struggle After Abrupt Unwinding of Stringent COVID Curbs

China’s Health Services Struggle After Abrupt Unwinding of Stringent COVID Curbs
People line up outside a fever clinic at a hospital in the morning in in Beijing, China, on Dec. 11, 2022. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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Over the past week, long lines have formed outside fever clinics, calls have inundated China’s emergency hotline, and businesses are preparing for new interruptions as a growing number of employees become sick.

These chaotic scenes unleashed by the Chinese regime’s abrupt reversal of its nearly three-year zero-COVID policy came as the virus raced through the population of 1.4 billion people, raising concerns that authorities were ill-prepared for the hasty reopening.