Balanced News: Chinese hospital staff report severe disease linked to reinfections with Omicron

Healthcare workers across China are seeing large numbers of people who have been reinfected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19, putting a further strain on the country’s beleaguered healthcare system, multiple sources told Radio Free Asia. A healthcare worker surnamed Li in the northern city of Shijiazhuang said medics are now seeing a wave of secondary infections, due to the damage wreaked by COVID-19 on the immune system. “We’re hearing about a very large number of reinfections in out-of-town areas, due to the damage done to the immune system by the first infection with COVID-19,” Li said.