The COVID Death Toll Myth in China

The COVID Death Toll Myth in China
Medical workers arrive with a patient on a stretcher at a fever clinic in Beijing on Dec. 9, 2022. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Peter Zhang
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George Bernard Shaw once said that “assassination is the extreme form of censorship”; he wasn’t exaggerating a bit. The swift end of Beijing’s zero-COVID policy brought the reported COVID-19 numbers in China closer to reality, but they’re still far from commonsensical.