{"id":1785169,"date":"2022-12-23T12:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785169"},"modified":"2022-12-23T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:34:18","slug":"u-s-urges-china-to-share-information-on-its-rapid-covid-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-urges-china-to-share-information-on-its-rapid-covid-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Urges China to Share Information on Its Rapid COVID Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-urges-china-to-share-information-on-its-rapid-covid-outbreak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785169&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has urged the Chinese communist regime to share information on the current COVID surge in China as it\u2019s impacting the rest of the world. He also reiterated that the United States is willing to provide help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very important for all countries, including China, to focus on people getting vaccinated, making testing and treatment available and, importantly, sharing information with the world about what they\u2019re experiencing,\u201d\u00a0Blinken said at a Dec. 22 press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has implications not just for China, but for the entire world. So we would like to see that happen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>China officially has reported only eight deaths this month as of Dec. 22, a figure drawing a high degree of skepticism by outside observers and stands in stark contrast to the scenes of crowded hospital wards and overwhelmed crematoriums in major cities across the country that have been flooding the Chinese internet. The regime also stopped counting the asymptomatic infections after easing the \u201czero-COVID\u201d restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party has consistently understated infection and death counts as part of its practice of censoring developments that may tarnish its image.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4941643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy wp-image-4941643 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/china-covid-1-1200x809-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4941643 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/china-covid-1-1200x809-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" \/><\/noscript> Ambulance drivers unload a patient outside a clinic treating COVID-19 patients in Beijing on Dec. 21, 2022. (Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-who\">WHO<\/a>), has also asked China to share data on the worsening COVID outbreak in the country.<\/p>\n<p>At a Dec. 21 press conference, the director-general said that WHO is \u201cvery concerned over the evolving situation in China with increasing reports of severe disease.\u201d He called on the Chinese regime to provide detailed information on disease severity, hospital admissions, and intensive care requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros also reiterated a request for the regime to share data on the origin of the coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He said that there are still gaps that prevent a full understanding of how the pandemic began, adding that without the necessary data it\u2019s difficult to prevent future outbreaks. COVID-19 first broke out in Wuhan in about November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to call on China to share the data and conduct the studies we have requested, and which we continue to request. As I have said many times before, all hypotheses about the origins of this pandemic remain on the table,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Offer to Help<\/h2>\n<p>The Chinese populace has been inoculated with Chinese-made vaccines which are considered by many experts as less effective than Western ones.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken renewed an offer to help China with U.S. vaccines. \u201cWe\u2019re fully prepared to provide assistance to anyone who asks for it if they think it\u2019s useful,\u201d he said, adding that China has yet not asked for help.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a daily press briefing: \u201dThe U.S. is the largest donor of Covid-19 vaccines around the world. We\u2019re prepared to continue to support people around the world, including in China, with this and other COVID-related health support.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3866053\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20\/forklift-transport-vaccines-taiwan-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-3866053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/forklift-transport-vaccines-taiwan-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"forklift-transport-vaccines-taiwan\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3866053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/forklift-transport-vaccines-taiwan-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"forklift-transport-vaccines-taiwan\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> A forklift is used to transport Moderna vaccines against the coronavirus disease at Taiwan Air cargo Terminal in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on June 18, 2021. (Ann Wang\/File Photo\/Reuters)<\/figure>\n<p>The Chinese regime hasn\u2019t responded to Washington\u2019s offer. Meanwhile, it turned down the German government\u2019s offer of BioNTech vaccines to the Chinese masses, only allowing the shipment of it for the 20,000 German expats living in China.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken also reiterated the U.S. government\u2019s concerns over virus mutation and the impact of China\u2019s COVID surge on the world economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAnytime the virus is spreading or is moving around, there is the possibility that a new variant develops, that variant spreads even further, and it comes and hits us or hits other countries,\u201d Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then, as we\u2019ve seen, there are clear implications for the global economy\u00a0with China being shut down because of COVID,\u201d he added, referring to severe supply chain disruptions caused by pandemic shutdowns.<\/p>\n<h2>Projections of Mass Infections<\/h2>\n<p>UK-based health research firm Airfinity has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airfinity.com\/articles\/china-risks-between-1-3-and-2-1-million-deaths-if-it-ends-its-zero-covid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated<\/a> more than 5,000 people are dying each day from COVID in China. The firm\u2019s report, published in late November and\u00a0based on modeling from regional Chinese data, also predicted a death toll between 1.3 million to 2.1 million for the new COVID outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>It projected that the outbreak would have two peaks in China: one in mid-January reaching 3.7 million infections a day in regions where cases are currently rising, and the other in March reaching 4.2 million infections a day in other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 6, Feng Zijian, the former deputy director of China\u2019s Centers for Disease Control, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/ill-prepared-china-may-face-wave-of-infections-millions-of-deaths-after-relaxing-covid-restrictions-fauci_4916357.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> during an online discussion\u00a0hosted by Tsinghua University that no matter how epidemic prevention and control policies are adjusted, most people in China will inevitably be infected once.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to calculations by mathematical models, when the first wave of large-scale infection reaches its peak, the infection rate in the population may reach about 60 percent, and then gradually fall back to a plateau, and eventually 80 to 90\u00a0percent of our people will be infected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4941626\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/12\/22\/china-covid-1200x809.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4941626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/china-covid-600x404-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4941626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/china-covid-600x404-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Ambulance drivers unload a patient outside a fever clinic treating COVID-19 patients on December 21, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-alex-wu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Alex Wu\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Alex Wu is a U.S.-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on Chinese society, Chinese culture, human rights, and international relations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has urged the Chinese communist regime to share information on the current COVID surge in China as it\u2019s impacting the rest of the world. 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