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© 2022 AFPHong Kong hospitals buckle under Omicron wave
By Holmes Chan and Su Xinqi HONG KONG©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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factchecker
Who would believe a word the CCP Muppet Carrie Lam has to say? This one more notch on the thumbscrews for Hong Kong by the CCP. Very sad.
runner3
Really surprised at the low vaccination rate in such a crowded city.
Mr Kipling
The old and most at risk chose not to be vaccinated...
Well, some decisions have consequences...
2020hindsights
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
No, it isn't. You are mistaken. I just worry about the loss of life that will ensue.
2020hindsights
This has the portents to be a disaster. So far Hong Kong has a low death rate, but with so many unvaccinated old people and the transmissibility of Omicron, this could kill so many.
Bill Adams
Haha - that's obviously a great success! Meanwhile, in England everything is back to normal, with all restrictions and controls lifted. I know where I'd rather be!
2020hindsights
Nihon Tora
Yes. It is sad to note that the death rate in the US under Omicron is higher than user Delta. The reason is, that with low vaccination numbers Omicron is infecting many more people and even though it is less severe, unvaccinated (and not just the elderly) are still prone.
jojo_in_japan
The photo of over crowded hospital is very disturbing. Good luck health care workers and thank you - god speed.
Nihon Tora
Omicron is less dangerous than the other variants and with high levels of vaccination among elderly people in places like Japan and the UK, probably will end up killing less than a slightly worse than average flu season - but in HK with so many older people unvaccinated and spreading as fast as it does, it could still wreak havoc there if they are not careful.
2020hindsights
Bill Adams
Like mainland China, Hong Kong has adhered to a zero-COVID strategy
And yet 150 people are dying every day in England from Covid.
cleo
So if I stab you through the heart and you die, the cause of death is blood loss? Heart failure?
No. The cause of death is the stabbing.
If you get Covid and it exacerbates your comorbidities so that one of them kills you, the cause of death is Covid, because if you hadn’t caught it you’d still be alive.
Bill Adams
No. With covid, **not **from covid.
Deaths from covid are insignificant.
snowymountainhell
Great analogy @cleo 9:43pm. Covid causes a cascade of physiological failures resulting in death.
mountainpear
Plenty of vacant factories in places like San Po Kong. Why could the government not have set up temporary recovery/waiting spaces in them. Better than being on the sidewalk. Even Hong Kong gets cold in the winter!
Ubesh
Have they thought about exporting the elderly to Mainland Chinese hospitals?
Luddite
The vaccines work.
Jim
Focus on the covid situation in Japan instead of HK! Death toll has been so high this month yet there isn’t any talk about it. Just closing restaurants at 8/9 isn’t the answer as it doesn’t work! Better strategies could be used rather than this idiotic restaurant closures.
lostrune2
That's what happens when hospitals become full - patients have to be treated on the parking lot literally
So don't fill up the hospitals with your sick Covid patients - don't get hospitalized
WilliB
jojo_in_japan
If that photo shows a hospital I am the easter bunny. That is a storage facility, very much like the horrible places that XiJi Pings government uses for quarantine.
Luddite
Sure they work to decrease the hospitalization risk for a few months. Which is why vulnerable people should consider them. They do not work to stop infection and transmission, which is why the "zero covid" police introduced by the CCP and now copie in HK is so stupid.
WilliB
That dystopian picture does not look like a hospital. The CCP simply collected these people because they tested positive and shoved them into that horrible looking place.
WilliB
.... it is also a disease that for the vast majority of people is harmless and does not need massive restrictions. But HK is stuck with the CCP narrative.
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
The covid narrative is a busted flush and it's becoming increasingly hard to sustain the draconian measures around the world.