Accounts of ‘White Lung’ Flood Chinese Social Media Amid COVID Spike

Accounts of ‘White Lung’ Flood Chinese Social Media Amid COVID Spike
A doctor looks at a CT image of a patient in Haidian, Beijing, China, on Jan 2, 2023. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Eva Fu
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When the father of Fan Deng, a prominent former anchor of Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, started dozing off more frequently during the day, the family didn’t worry.

This wasn’t uncommon, after all, for someone in their 80s. The man’s mind was clear and his appetite was as good as ever. But when the family used a pulse oximeter out of caution, they found his blood oxygen level dangerously low at 88 percent, 4 percent below the threshold requiring medical attention. By the time the family got him to the hospital, his blood oxygen levels had plunged to the 60s.

Eva Fu
Eva Fu
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Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
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