China’s coronavirus crisis: The Beijing hospital runs out of beds, and families cremate corpses in the streets as deaths rise

Beds have run out at a Beijing hospital, forcing patients to rest on stretchers or lie on hallway floors as COVID-19 infections sweep the country and Expanding public health sectors Resources.

“We don’t have beds, we don’t have oxygen, we have a room full of waiting patients,” a healthcare worker in the emergency room of Beijing’s Chaoyang Hospital told the Financial Times before Christmas.

China watched COVID-19 cases rise after rolling back the country’s “zero COVID” policy as the sudden shift occurred without any surge in vaccines. Instead, officials have simply tried to bolster hospitals in anticipation of a new wave of COVID-19 by setting up hundreds of “fever clinics” to ramp up testing.

the Hospitals are not equipped For how significant this wave is, Chuiyangliu Hospital in eastern Beijing was overwhelmed with new arrivals and unable to properly isolate them on January 5.

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One report even noted that hospitals have asked patients to “bring your bed” due to a shortage.

Photos from the Associated Press show elderly women hunched over in oxygen masks in hallways as they wait to be triaged by doctors.

People wearing face masks scroll through their phones and look at their elderly relatives receiving intravenous drips in the corridor of a Beijing hospital on January 5, 2023.
(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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Dr. Mark Siegel, a professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center and a medical contributor to Fox News, told Fox News Digital that the resulting wave of COVID-19 infections shows that the “zero COVID” strategy “clearly backfired.”

Once they are released [the policy]there was a rampant spread of Highly infectious subsubstance, XBBSiegel said there is a high risk of a new, more dangerous variant emerging. “China has stuck with its own vaccines, which are of lower quality than ours, and there hasn’t been much uptake lately, so most vaccines have worn off.”

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“The high-risk population in China suffers from poor uptake of the vaccine, which leads to hospitalization and death,” he added.

The latest estimates suggest deaths could rise from 9,000 a day to as many as 25,000 a day in January – a stark contrast to An astronomically low 5,227 deaths before the end of “zero-Covid” compared to the total population, although Siegel said “we can’t count on [China’s] Preparation.”

Patients receive an intravenous injection in the emergency department of a hospital in Beijing on January 5, 2023.
(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

An elderly patient receives an intravenous drip while using a ventilator in the corridor of a Beijing hospital on January 5, 2023.
(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised concerns about this China’s lack of transparency Regarding the current situation, emergency director Dr Michael Ryan said China’s current figures “do not represent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions and especially in terms of deaths,” the British Evening Post reported. The standard has been reported.

As COVID-19 cases continue to spread, China has changed its standards for reporting major data, especially what describes as a COVID-related death — limited to deaths from respiratory failure and pneumonia — and stopped reporting asymptomatic cases.

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President Joe Biden said China was “very sensitive” when the United States and the World Health Organization raised concerns that officials “didn’t show up.” The United States, along with many other countries, Testing requirements imposed for travelers from China, with Morocco banning any arrivals from the country.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning told reporters Thursday, “Facts have proved that China, in accordance with the principles of legality, timeliness, openness and transparency, has maintained close communication and exchanged relevant information and data with the World Health Organization in a timely manner.”

Mourners stand outside a crematorium in Beijing on December 31, 2022.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A man rests his hand on a coffin outside a crematorium in Beijing on December 31, 2022.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

“Currently, the coronavirus situation in China is under control. While China adjusts its response policy to the coronavirus, we will continue to carry out activities, including technical exchanges with the World Health Organization,” Mao said during a press briefing. “It is hoped that the WHO Secretariat will take a scientific, objective and fair stance and play a positive role in addressing the global epidemic.”

“The COVID situation in China is under control,” Mao added, but images from China offer a different story as images of cremations mount in the streets as funeral homes are overwhelmed by the death toll and corpses.

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In one of the clips shared on Twitter, a wooden coffin can be seen burning on the side of what is claimed to be a road in rural China; Another photo shows families gathered around a downtown parking lot, according to the New York Post.

Funeral homes can afford families no more than 10 minutes to grieve in a room full of bodies on stretchers before moving in, Bloomberg reported, with one funeral home handling more than 500 bodies — five times the usual number.

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One family said they were “lucky” because it was winter because they had to wait five days before a funeral home in Shanghai came to collect their relative’s body.

“The whole system is now paralyzed,” an employee at Longhua Funeral Home told Bloomberg.