Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2023)

Estimate of COVID-19 Deaths, China, December 2022–February 2023

  • Zhanwei Du,
  • Yuchen Wang,
  • Yuan Bai,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Benjamin John Cowling,
  • Lauren Ancel Meyers

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2910.230585
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 10
pp. 2121 – 2124

Abstract

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China announced a slight easing of its zero-COVID rules on November 11, 2022, and then a major relaxation on December 7, 2022. We estimate that the ensuing wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections caused 1.41 million deaths in China during December 2022–February 2023, substantially higher than that reported through official channels.

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