SHANGHAI — Patients are crammed into hallways, stairwells and lobbies, and still the sick keep coming.
After international criticism that it had not been transparent about the severity of the outbreak, the Chinese government said last weekend that it had recorded 60,000 Covid-related deaths since Dec. 8.
But that figure covers only those who have died in hospitals, suggesting the true death toll could be much higher.
“My father had no symptoms but still died,” one 31-year-old woman said outside a hospital in central Shanghai.
On the day my father moved into the hospital, almost all patients in the emergency department died.”