China’s COVID story is not being told

China has just ended it’s “zero-COVID” policy. After nearly three years of being an isolated behemoth, demonstrating a singular alternative to the wider world’s mitigation strategies, the People’s Republic of China is opening up and essentially giving up on ending the disease, opting instead for living with it.

Indeed, the national government reportedly is even favoring a full-scale “herd-immunity” strategy, hoping that enough people will have caught and recovered — thereby gaining natural immunity — that the impending Chinese New Year celebrations will not be…

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