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Depends where you were, and when. Probably almost everyone got sick in China after they dropped their zero-covid measures, in the space of a month or so. If you
by roywiggins 3y ago
Depends where you were, and when. Probably almost everyone got sick in China after they dropped their zero-covid measures, in the space of a month or so. If you're sick for maybe 1-3 weeks, that's easily 1/3rd of the population sick simultaneously.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/15/world/asia/china-covid-death-estimates.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/15/world/asia/ch...
> Based on that data, they inferred that 90 percent of the population was infected in little more than a month.
> While the figure is high, epidemiologists who were not involved with the project said such a rate was plausible. And in January, a leading government epidemiologist said on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform, that 80 percent of the population had been infected. Some European companies’ operations in China saw infection rates of 90 percent among their employees in December, Joerg Wuttke, the president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, told The Times in an interview.
- xyzzy123 3y agoYes, I mean they had the option of pausing air traffic from Wuhan. Why wouldn't you? Well of course it's not from China in any case.