China’s Covid-zero strategy ‘will fuel more harm than good’
By keeping people cut off from the virus, the country may make them more vulnerable once they’re exposed: expert
05 June 2022 - 19:50
Michael Mina has long pushed for widespread testing as a way to stop Covid-19 outbreaks in their tracks. But what China is doing, he says, is going too far. ..
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