https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-chinas-covid-crisis-could-spawn-the-next-omicron-level-disaster?source=articles&via=rss
No one outside of the Chinese Communist Party knows for sure exactly how many Chinese have caught COVID in recent weeks. The paranoid, authoritarian CCP stopped sharing good data shortly after lifting restrictions. But testing of air travelers from China is fragmentary evidence of a major crisis.
The same testing, along with hundreds of viral samples that Chinese epidemiologists have uploaded to a global COVID database, tells us which forms of the virus are dominant in China. While most of the world is on the down-slope of a medium-sized winter wave caused by XBB, a “recombinant” blend of several Omicron subvariants, China’s just now catching BA.5.2, a subvariant that was dominant everywhere else around six months ago.
And those millions—or even tens of millions—of Chinese BA.5.2 infections have spawned a trio of BA.5.2 spinoffs. Viral samples from several Chinese cities, uploaded last week, were the first evidence of BA.5.2.48, BA.5.2.49 and BA.5.2.50. That’s right: China is now evolving its own forms of COVID.
It’s a problem for China, of course, which has weeks or months of suffering ahead of it as authorities scramble to organize fresh rounds of vaccinations. The jabs are triage—a desperate effort to prevent overfull hospitals from collapsing as the Chinese population slowly, painfully builds up its natural immunity.
中国共产党以外的人谁也不知道最近几周有多少中国人感染了新冠肺炎。 在解除限制后不久，偏执的、专制的中共就停止了分享良好数据。 但是，对来自中国的航空旅客的测试只是一场重大危机的零星证据。
中国流行病学家将数百个病毒样本上传到全球新冠肺炎数据库,通过同样的检查可以知道在中国哪种病毒占优势。 尽管世界大部分地区都处于由XBB（欧米龙的几个子变量的”重组”混合物）引发的中型冬季浪潮的下坡，但中国刚刚抓住了BA.5.2，这一子变量的主导地位大约在六个月前在其他地方。
而那数百万甚至数千万的中国BA.5.2感染已经产生了三个BA.5.2分支。 上周上传的几个中国城市的病毒样本是BA.5.2.48、BA.5.2.49和BA.5.2.50的第一个证据。 没错: 中国现在正在进化自己的新冠肺炎形态。
当然，这对中国来说是个问题，因为中国当局正忙于组织新一轮的疫苗接种，未来数周或数月将遭受痛苦。 这种咬牙器是一种分类——这是为了防止过度拥挤的医院崩溃而做出的绝望努力，因为中国人正在痛苦地建立其自然免疫力。
opinion : Even China governemtn is blind to a correct no of their infected people before they hiding the truth 即使中国政府在隐瞒真相之前，也完全无视他们的感染者。