China COVID crisis: Beijing hospital runs out of beds, families burn bodies in streets as deaths spike

A Beijing hospital has run out of beds, forcing patients to rest on stretchers or lay on the hallway floors as COVID-19 infections run rampant in the country and stretch thin the public health sectors’ resources. "We have no beds, we have no oxygen, and we have a room full of sick people waiting," a health care worker in Beijing Chaoyang Hospital’s emergency room told the Financial Times ahead of Christmas. China has watched as cases of COVID-19 spiked following the rollback of the country’s "zero-COVID" policy as the abrupt...