In 2020, the year following the explosion of Covid-19, “the number of hospitalizations fell, with 35.8 million [d’admissions en moins]”, revealed Xiang Dongliang, science blogger, ex-agricultural journalist, on his account Wechat.
In his article, counting more than 100,000 views, the blogger explains that his curiosity about this curve was aroused by a statement by Wang Fusheng, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. During a press conference organized on July 23 by an organization for the prevention and control of the epidemic of the Council of State (main administrative authority of the country), with the aim of putting an end to the rumor about “the anti-Covid vaccine which would cause leukemia and diabetes”, the academician argued that the number of hospitalizations of leukemia patients even decreased in 2020 and 2021.
Xiang Dongliang’s research supports 13.7% drop in people with hospital leukemia