Virus Questions Raised in China

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This is a newspaper article detailing the repercussions of China's "Zero-COVID" policy and the impact it has on families. The story reports a rise in deaths at a Shanghai hospital for the elderly and a further rise in COVID cases in Shanghai. Extensive regulations at the hospital have forced a decrease in hospital staff to manage the many elderly patients suffering with COVID. The article details that a significant number of patients are asymptomatic, yet are placed in strict quarantine to minimize the spread. There are reports of several patients dying due to a lack of proper care from medical professionals who are forced to be absent from the patient as they are locked in strict quarantine. The article further suggests that perhaps China's "Zero-COVID" policy approach is creating far more significant damage to individuals and their families than good.

I think this article is interesting because it details an alternative approach to U.S. policy which has maintained a very relaxed and hands-off attitude for a majority of the pandemic. While many states took arguably excessively extreme measures, many states were lax on quarantine, mask enforcement, lockdown protocols, etc. Furthermore, China's policy seems a bit excessive, so perhaps the right answer lies somewhere in the middle.

This Article was published April 10th, 2022 in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 10, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Olivia Zhang

Chen Si

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Brett Reinert

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

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Text Story

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English News coverage

English Health & Wellness

English Public Health & Hospitals

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

quarantine

newspaper

death

Shanghai Donghai Elderly Care

nurse

outbreak

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Shanghai

China

lockdown

policy

quarentine

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HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/25/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

05/02/2022

08/02/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on April 25, 2022 by Brett Reinert (He/Him) using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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