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by blablablub 1528 days ago
China distinguishes between asymptomatic and "confirmed" cases. In the last 10 days there were around 140k asymptomatic cases - those are shipped to the makeshift hospitals "quarantine centers" you see on TV.

During the same time there are around 5k cases with symptoms, as i understand all confirmed with a chest x-ray scan(?). Those go into the covid hospitals, which are now overflowing.

Do all of those need to go to a hospital? I don't know. But on the pictures you see mostly elderly people, and the vaccination rate among those is about as high as in HK

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Considering how many people were tested a bunch of those could just be false positives. They did like 100m tests or something crazy
No they didn't. Shanghai's testing capacity is around 2m/day.
I thought they tested everyone in the city like 4 times.