Covid Cases Rising

Doctor Howard Bernstein of Beijing noted that in his more than three decades of emergency medicine, he has never encountered anything like this.

He added that patients are coming into his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; practically all of them are elderly and many are really ill with symptoms of COVID and pneumonia.

Bernstein’s statement is consistent with similar evidence from medical professionals across China who are struggling to cope after China abruptly changed its previously tight COVID standards this month, which was followed by an outbreak of diseases that spread across the country.

Since the epidemic started in the country’s capital city of Wuhan three years ago, this outbreak is by far the largest to have occurred there. In this month’s high demand, Beijing’s government hospitals and crematoriums have also struggled.

“The hospital is just completely overburdened,” Bernstein