Thread by @dcpetterson

Media is scare-hyping the fact that China is experiencing a spike in COVID cases.

See, China is finally getting the Omicron surge.

China (with three times the US population) has had 117,00 COVID cases since late 2019 (to our 81,000,000) and 4600 deaths (to our 994,000).

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China now has 7000 active cases, up from 1500 in mid-February. That's a big jump--Omicron is highly contagious. The US had 29 million active cases at the Omicron peak, up from 10 million before the Omicron surge. Not nearly as large a percentage, but ENORMOUS numbers.

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China now has about 700 new reported cases/day and no reported deaths since May of 2020.

The US now has 30,000 new cases/day and about 1000 daily deaths--which at least is significantly down from the Omicron peak of 820,000 new cases and 2700 deaths per day.

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It's true that we can't entirely trust the reporting from China. It's also true that China has very strictly enforced mask orders, shutdowns, travel bans, and vaccines, which we have not. It's further true that there are several red US states whose reporting we cannot trust.

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My point is that a significant Omicron surge in China will not be anything like what the Omicron surge was in the US--and during that spike here, most states pretended the pandemic was over and we should ignore it. We survived it. So will China.

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The upshot is, don't let the media hype about a COVID surge in China scare you too much. There are some truly dangerous things going on in the world you should be paying attention to instead.

Like Republicans.

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Data for the US in the above thread was taken from here:
worldometers.info/coronavirus/co…

Data for China came from here:
worldometers.info/coronavirus/co…

Other sources with world numbers will be similar.