August 25, 2023 8:18 PM

Nearly 2 million deaths followed China’s abrupt end to Covid restrictions: Study

A new US study says that China's decisions to abruptly call off its restriction regime for COVID-19 could have led to nearly 2 million excess deaths in just two months that followed. The study has been done by the federally funded Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. Sample of mortality data for the report was taken from some universities in China and internet searches. It found that between December 2022 and January 2023, an estimated 1.87 million excess deaths occured from all causes...