Almost half a million people in the Chinese city of Qingdao are being infected by Covid-19 every day, said a senior health official. Bo Tao, the municipal health chief reportedly said that the Chinese coastal city with a population of around 10 million people was seeing "between 490,000 and 530,000" new Covid cases a day and that it was "in a period of rapid transmission ahead of an approaching peak". He also said that the infection rate would accelerate by another 10 per cent over the weekend.
This rare acknowledgement of the nation's wave of infections was quickly censored.
the overall public seems to be done with the coronavirus emergency. many congressmen don t. this question gets that the trend line we ve seen. an overwhelming 70% of americans agree with the statement that it s time we accept that covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives. that view is widely held despite an average of 2,500 people in this country dying every day from the virus at this moment. most of them, of course, are unvaccinated. and while americans overall say it s time to get on with their lives, democrats are more divided. the fact that independents look more like republicans on this question is a huge potential political liability for the president and his party. independents are the deciders these days on a lot of issues, looking more like democrats than republicans, but not on covid. those numbers are a window into why the administration appears to be struggling with its pandemic messaging, privately and publicly. photo-ops like yesterday s
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