China’s Covid Death Toll Could Near 1 Million, Study Shows
- Study co-authored by disease modeling expert Gabriel Leung
- Leung’s team predicted scale of deaths in Hong Kong wave
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Almost 1 million people in China may die from Covid-19 as the government rapidly abandons pandemic curbs, according to a new study by researchers in Hong Kong.
In the absence of a mass vaccination booster campaign and other measures to reduce the impact of the virus, some 684 people per million would die in a nationwide reopening, according to the report, which was co-authored by Gabriel Leung, the former dean of medicine at the University of Hong Kong.