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How Did Qingdao City Complete COVID-19 Testing on Nearly 11 Million People in Just 5 Days?

How Did Qingdao City Complete COVID-19 Testing on Nearly 11 Million People in Just 5 Days?
A health worker checks the temperature of residents as they line up to be tested for the COVID-19 in Qingdao, eastern China’s Shandong Province on Oct. 12, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Xiaoxu Sean Lin
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Yuhong Dong
Yuhong Dong
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News Analysis

Chinese state-run media Xinhua claimed that Qingdao city tested nearly 11 million residents within five days after a new cluster of local COVID-19 infections emerged in October. Based on an analysis of China’s current resources and news reports by other media outlets in the mainland, evidence suggests that it may not have been possible for Qingdao to conduct such large-scale testing within a short period of time.

Xiaoxu Sean Lin is an assistant professor in the Biomedical Science Department at Feitian College in Middletown, New York. He is also a frequent analyst and commentator for Epoch Media Group, VOA, and RFA. He is a veteran who served as a U.S. Army microbiologist and also a member of Committee on the Present Danger: China.
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