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China’s COVID Wave Is Coming

December 8, 2022
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Sarah Cobey
SARS-CoV-2’s final frontier
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University of Chicago
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Xi Chen

In China, a dam turns out at the verge of breaking. Following a wave of protests, the federal government has begun to calm down a few of its maximum stringent zero-COVID protocols, and regional government have trimmed again a slew of necessities for mass checking out, quarantine, and isolation. The rollbacks are coming as a…