37 million cases a day in China, 248 million infected in December, Death toll maybe not horrendous (double a flu season?) but unclear

From here: One-day tally of COVID cases in China hits 37 million: Report | Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera (h/t citizenfreepress.com)

“Nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with COVID-19 on a single day this week, the Bloomberg news agency has reported, citing minutes from an internal meeting of the country’s National Health Commission held on Wednesday. In all, the report which was published on Friday said about 18 percent of the country’s population – 248 million people – are likely to have contracted the virus in the first 20 days of December. “

“On Thursday, health data firm Airfinity estimated that there are likely more than 5,000 daily deaths and upwards of a million daily infections from COVID-19 in the country. Airfinity said its mortality risk analysis suggested between 1.3 million to 2.1 million people could die in China’s current COVID-19 outbreak.”

“However, on the same day, China officially reported less than 4,000 new symptomatic local COVID-19 cases nationwide and no deaths from the virus.”

Getting accurate data is just as difficult in China as it is anywhere else. Most of the time, the relevant questions are not even asked, let alone captured.

Let’s approximated using the Chinese colony, Hong Kong, as a proxy. Here are cases in Hong Kong.

Pretty well all of Hong Kong’s cumulative cases occurred in the last few months and are still exploding higher.

Cumulative cases per million in Hong Kong stand at around 320,000 per million (32% of the almost 10 million population).

The pro-rata equivalent for China would be around 460 million.

Here are HK deaths.

Cumulative deaths per million for Hong Kong are around 1,500, which would scale up to an equivalent of 2.2 million for China.

Just as with mRNA and viral vector vaccines, it looks like China’s non-mRNA vaccines failed utterly and only the imprisonment of the country prevented spread of prior viral strains.

There are no signs of the outbreak (BF7 variant?) are slowing, if anything the outbreak is speeding up in Hong Kong.

Fingers crossed the lethality of the outbreak continues at low levels indicated in Hong Kong. The rate of increase in deaths is far below the rate of increase in cases.

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