영어공부하기: China may see 'million' deaths, predict experts

China may see 'million' deaths, predict experts

 

* see : 보이다. 보이게 된다. 중요한 것은 뒤의 목적어!!!

= There may be a millon deaths in China

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# The emergency ward of this hospital in the Shanghai suburbs was filled to the hallways with patients on Thursday. A notice in the room said the wait to be seen was an average of five hours. 

 

* ward : 병동

a large room in a hospital with beds for people to stay in

a surgical/geriatric/psychiatric ward

Jo is a staff nurse working on the maternity ward.

admit someone to a ward (=bring them into hospital to stay): 

When Julie was admitted to the ward she was still in a lot of pain.

 

* suburb

an area or town near a large city but away from its centre, where there are many houses, especially for middle-class people

suburb of: 

Wanstead is a suburb of London.

the suburbs: 

Once we have kids, we’ll probably move to the suburbs.

 

* suburban

in a suburb, or relating to a suburb

suburban shopping centres/schools/housewives

suburban Manchester (=the suburbs around Manchester)

 

* urban

relating to towns and cities, or happening there

People moved to the urban areas for jobs.

Urban poverty is on the increase.

 

 * rural 

relating to the countryside, or in the countryside

people who live in remote rural areas

social change in rural communities

rural areas/roads/schools

 

* the wait to be seen was an average of five hours.

the wait to be seen : 대기시간

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# Packed emergency wards have become a common scene across China's hospitals after Beijing abruptly scrapped its stringent COVID controls last month. The country has defended its COVID handling measures and said its "epidemic situation is controllable." 

 

* pack : 싸다, 가득

* across the country : 전국적으로 (across: 전체적으로)

* scrap iron : 고철 / 쓸모없는 => 폐기처분

* stringent:  strict

* a defendant 피고

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# University of Hong Kong epidemiologist Benjamin Cowling told Reuters COVID may have already peaked in big Chinese cities. But he worried the upcoming Lunar New Year travel would spread COVID-19 to rural areas, where healthcare infrastructure was weaker.

 

# “It's quite possible that there will be a million deaths or more this winter from COVID in China. And that number could’ve been much larger if China had opened two years ago and hadn’t continued with zero-COVID before vaccines were available, there would have been many, many more deaths from COVID in China. But at the same time, that number, one million or more, that could be a much lower number if there was a better preparation and possibly better timing for the transition away from zero COVID.”

 

# Some Chinese residents echoed that criticism on Thursday. "They should have taken a series of actions before opening up, like advising what precautions people of a certain age should take, what young people should do, and allowing people to prepare medication or distribute it, and at the very least ensure the pharmacies were well stocked. When all is ready, then it's time to open up.

 

* echo = repeat

* share that criticism 

* precaution = 사전조치

* 일정연령의 사람들 = people of a certain age

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#  China reported one new COVID death in the mainland for Wednesday, compared with five a day earlier, bringing its official death toll since the pandemic began to 5,259. In some of the most critical remarks to date, the WHO's emergencies director Mike Ryan said on Wednesday China's figures underrepresented hospital admissions, intensive care unit patients and deaths. China counts only those caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure as COVID deaths – a classification the WHO said was "too narrow".

 

* report = 보도하다, 보고하다 => 발표, 알리다 

* compared with : ~와 비교해서

* to date : 지금까지

* figures stats numbers 통계수치 (stats = statistics)

* pneumonia  폐렴

* heart failure 심부전