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In Depth: China’s Rural Covid Wave Exposes Flaws in Plan to Prevent Hospital Overcrowding

By Xiang Kai, Qi Zhanning and Wang Xintong
2023年02月16日 19:57
Policymakers wanted patients’ first stop to be village and township health centers, but shortages in experience and materials created incentives for them to do otherwise
On Jan. 18, in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, a family doctor with a medical service package arrives at Nanguan Island to check the health of the elderly. Photo: VCG

Across China’s vast countryside, where the health care system has fewer resources at its disposal, an earlier-than-expected surge in Covid infections stretched local health care staff to the limit last month.

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