Nearly 2 million excess deaths followed China's sudden end of COVID-19 curbs: Study

The study, published on Thursday by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, indicates that the 60,000 deaths revealed by the Chinese government between December and January would have been greatly underestimated.

Nearly 2 million excess deaths after China ended ‘zero-Covid’: study

There were almost 2 million excess deaths in the two months after China lifted its “zero-Covid” restrictions, a U.S. study said, contradicting official figures.

Almost 2-million excess deaths in China after abrupt end to zero-Covid regime, study finds

Global health experts repeatedly called on China to reveal more data as reports of rising hospitalisations and deaths surfaced

American study estimates 1.87 million excess deaths occurred in China two months after its zero COVID policy ended

A pair of public health researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Public Health Sciences Division, in Seattle, Washington, working with two independent colleagues, has found that in the two months after China halted its zero COVID policy at the end of 2022, 1.87 million excess deaths occurred in that country.

China’s Covid Zero Exit Led to 1.9 Million Deaths in Two Months, Study Finds

China’s unexpected decision to end its strict Covid Zero policy in December 2022 led to nearly 1.9 million excess deaths in just two months, according to one of the first independent studies to estimate the virus’s devastation as it rampaged across the vast country.

A new US study shows that China's sudden decision to abandon strict measures against the spread of COVID-19 could have resulted in almost 2 million more deaths in the two months that followed.