One report claimed that hospitals told patients to bring their own bed due to shortage
A Beijing hospital has run out of beds, forcing patients to rest on stretchers or lay on the hallway floors as COVID-19 infections run rampant in the country and stretch thin the public health sectors’ resources.
"We have no beds, we have no oxygen, and we have a room full of sick people waiting," a health care worker in Beijing Chaoyang Hospital’s emergency room told the Financial Times ahead of Christmas.
China has watched as cases of COVID-19 spiked following the rollback of the country’s "zero-COVID" policy as the abrupt shift occurred without any increase in vaccinations. Instead, officials tried to simply bolster hospitals in anticipation of a new COVID-19 wave by establishing hundreds of "fever clinics" to increase testing.
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Lockdowns are like straining against a rubber band. You make progress and despite the resistance of the rubber band. You showed it. Then Mother natures strikes back and the rubber band snaps you back to your starting position or worse.
Like other have said, there is no herd immunity. This is the price that is being paid for bad decision for top down decision making by the CCP.
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