Global Times

By GT staff reporters GTINVESTIG­ATES

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More than two years after the novel coronaviru­s disease outbreak, and behind the whopping COVID- 19 death toll of more than a million in the US, there are far more shocking and heart- breaking numbers.

Whereas nearly 60 percent of Americans have been infected with COVID- 19 at least once, more than 75 percent of children and adolescent­s in the country have been infected, according to the results of the national blood survey released by the US’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on April 26.

Life expectancy in the country has declined for two consecutiv­e years since the pandemic began, gan, while wh about 200,000 children c in the country have become b

“COVID- 19 orphans.”

All these figures once again prove that the US, which has never reflected upon nor held any official accountabl­e for such catastroph­e, has been seeking comfort in the notion of “coexistenc­e with the coronaviru­s,” which is the world’s rld’s top “failed mandate.”

Chinese health experts noted oted that as a vulnerable group, the he protection, treatment, and rehabilita­bilitation of adolescent­s and children dren requires the joint efforts of parents and the society.

Data, examples, and continued inued calls from their own countries’ es’ health experts demonstrat­e that China’s dynamic zero- COVID D anti- epidemic strategy helped d solve some of the problems that the West has been struggling g with, and China’s insistence on sticking icking to dynamic zero- COVID is the he current best solution to protect ect human lives.

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