Month: January 2022

China’s zero covid policy has zero chance of succeeding, which is why they’ve changed the definition of zero covid. You know how it is when you stake your reputation on a policy that just doesn’t work. In this episode of China Uncensored, we discuss the extreme measures China is taking to prevent the covid from spreading, why it’s so hard to report positive cases in China, and what Beijing is doing to protect the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Stephen Kissler, Research Fellow in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses current vaccine booster efficacy against Omicron.

China’s zero covid policy has zero chance of succeeding, which is why they’ve changed the definition of zero covid. You know how it is when you stake your reputation on a policy that just doesn’t work. In this episode of China Uncensored, we discuss the extreme measures China is taking to prevent the covid from spreading, why it’s so hard to report positive cases in China, and what Beijing is doing to protect the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Chinese authorities locked down after discovering two cases of omicron in Anyang, a city of 5.5 million people about 300 miles outside Beijing. It’s the third Chinese city now in lockdown and comes less than a month before the Beijing Olympics. These lockdowns are tests of China’s zero-COVID policy, which authorities have called a success. But critics ask: at what cost? Nick Schifrin reports.

Xi’an is a city of 13 million people located in the west of China. Since December 22, the city has been locked down because of a new round of covid outbreak. The Chinese authority claimed victory this week in its fight to contain the community spread. They used a new method called societal zero out that means the government moves all close contacts to the infected people to quarantine centers outside the city, thus those left in the city will be safe and a zero-covid status can be reached. In this episode,