China estimates 37 million infected with COVID in a single day
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Source: New York Post
Nearly 37 million people may have contracted COVID-19 in China earlier this week, making the country's viral outbreak the world's largest.
Minutes from an internal meeting of the National Health Commission (NHC) revealed that as many as 248 million people - nearly 18% of China's population - came down with the virus in the first 20 days of December, as a surge that began in Beijing is now spreading to rural regions, Bloomberg News reported.
It is unclear how Chinese health officials arrived at that estimate, as the country's network of PCR testing booths were shut down earlier this month.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/china-estimates-37-million-infected-with-covid-in-one-day/
In a different news story yesterday, I saw estimates for 1,000,000 infection daily and 5,000 dead per day.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-22/china-is-likely-seeing-1-million-covid-cases-5-000-deaths-a-day
If COVID progresses there like it did elsewhere, those who eventually die usually linger for weeks after initial infection. So that means the death rate will really explode over the next few weeks to months.
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...the CCP as much as the next guy, but give them a break...
..."zero COVID" was trying to stave off this situation...
...what health care system on earth can handle 37 million cases a day?
...they've got big problems...
Do I need this??
… you do.
Several times I’ve been warned and censored for not
clarifying what I assumed was VERY obvious facetiousness
I learned there’s no downside to making oneself clear 
here is a no paywall version of the Bloomberg article.
But nope... he wanted China to be superior. 
If this variant does eventually come here, at least the adults will be in charge.
