China's people are protesting the country's severe zero-COVID policies, and public-health experts agree with them
Thousands of demonstrators erupt in rare protests against COVID-19 restrictions across China. Protests are erupting across China over the country's restrictive zero-COVID policies . Public-health experts say the policies are unsustainable, ineffective, and unnecessarily severe. Without vaccination campaigns targeting older adults, China's lockdowns may only delay a catastrophic COVID wave. Protestors are flooding streets across China — the largest protests since 1989's Tiananmen Square demonstrations — demanding relief from the country's restrictive zero-COVID lockdowns, and public-health experts agree with them. "There really are no benefits to this type of irrational policy except to feed the naked power lust of the leaders of China," Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, told Insider in an email. A woman delivers food to a residential compound that is under lockdown in Beijing, China. Thomas Pet...