While most American cities are opening up and lifting COVID-19 restrictions, one of the biggest cities in the world has been shut back down.
American Shaun Rein, who lives in the Pudong section of Shanghai, has been locked down for 11 days, since his neighbors were identified as"close contacts of close contacts."
"I think there are a lot of people in Shanghai who are saying, you know, right now the medicine is worse than the disease," he told CBS News."We have people who are dying because they can't get access to medical care. How many people have actually died from this recent surge of COVID? The government has told us zero."
A 77-year-old man was taken off dialysis when he tested positive for COVID and died before he could be transferred to another facility, according to a story in China's Global Times tabloid, which was later censored.
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