一位前中国疾控中心官员说：“即使提前三天通知也不错。”“发生这种情况的方式令人难以置信。”
很快，病人占领了急诊病房，病人分散在地板上。新冠肺炎抗病毒药物在黑市上以每盒数千美元的价格出售。
中国疾控中心后来估计，在短短六周内，该国约80%的人被感染——超过10亿人。但根据一名前官方媒体记者获得并在网上发布的泄露指令，即使死亡人数增加，当局也命令官方媒体转移对中国突然重新开放的批评。
“大力宣传，”它命令道。“反驳美国和西方提出的我们‘被迫打开’和‘没有准备的’的虚假主张。”—阅读apnews.com/article/zero-covid-exit-china-reopening-investigation-05e1bf6d14e3b77ade26b719093ac43b
Even three days’ notice would have been good,” said a former China CDC official. “The way this happened was just unbelievable.”
Soon, the sick overran emergency wards and patients sprawled on floors. COVID-19 antivirals sold for thousands of dollars a box on the black market.
In just six weeks, about 80% of the country was infected — more than a billion people, the China CDC later estimated. But even as deaths mounted, authorities ordered state media to deflect criticism over China’s sudden reopening, according to a leaked directive obtained by a former state media journalist and posted online.
“Make a big propaganda push,” it ordered. “Counter the false claims leveled by the United States and the West that we were ‘forced to open’ and ‘hadn’t prepared.’”
— Read on apnews.com/article/zero-covid-exit-china-reopening-investigation-05e1bf6d14e3b77ade26b719093ac43b
