Reuters: Chinese Hospitals “Overwhelmed” By COVID

December 26, 2022 China, Coronavirus

In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this. Patients are arriving at his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; almost all are elderly and many are very unwell with COVID and pneumonia symptoms, he said.

“The hospital is just overwhelmed from top to bottom,” Bernstein told Reuters at the end of a “stressful” shift at the privately owned Beijing United Family Hospital in the east of the capital. Elsewhere in China, medical staff told Reuters that resources are already stretched to the breaking point.

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