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Originally Posted by GasoLane

Yeah, you've got to love news.com's usual clickbait sensationalist headline.

There's other sources that are reporting similar stories (albeit with slightly less figures) and using other sources for the expected calculations. So, yes, the headline that news.com.au ran with might be sensationalist, but look past the headline at the body of the article.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/sto...ths-predicted/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64018467

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

China has 1.4 billion people 2.1 million people will die of natural causes there too, the reporting of Covid death statistics before the event is quite exaggerated for sure, just to promote the fear factor.

Yep, and now there'll be between 1 and 2.1 (depending on the accuracy of the modelling) million additional deaths that China will need to be prepared to deal with.

We've been through this before in this thread with our the impact of covid in country, let's not go over old ground again.

Look past the headlines and look at the impact that this will have in a place like China. We saw it with our hospital system being impacted by the number of cases. It's thought about one third of China's population will have been infected by April next year. That's a massive influx into the public health system.