Medical experts presented Chinese leaders with plans to prepare for an exit from zero-COVID policies. Beijing held off on the plans repeatedly, AP found, leaving China unprepared when restrictions ended. Experts say that caused many avoidable deaths.
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FILE - An elderly patient receives an intravenous drip while using a ventilator in the hallway of the emergency ward in Beijing, Jan. 5, 2023. China's sudden reopening after two years holding to a "zero-COVID" strategy left older people vulnerable and hospitals and pharmacies unprepared during the season when the virus spreads most easily, leading to many avoidable deaths, The Associated Press has found.
BEIJING — When China suddenly scrapped onerous zero-COVID measures in December, the country wasn’t ready for a massive onslaught of cases.
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