China's leaders must balance relaxing restrictions with keeping deaths low.
Medical wards are not yet overflowing with patients but fever clinics have seen long lines.on supplies as would-be blood donors stay away due to testing positive for COVID or fear of infection.Some factory managers are implementing a closed-loop system that keeps workers isolated from the outside world. Others areCase counts are so high that regular business has been disrupted and supply chains are being thrust into chaos.
Zero-COVID restrictions bought China time to ensure its population was fully vaccinated, but Chinese authorities didn't permit the widespread use of more effective but foreign-made mRNA vaccines — leaving the population both without significant natural immunity and without the best available protectionn.
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