COVID in ChinaChina is suffering an estimated 5,000 unofficial deaths a day in brutal COVID-19 surgeChina officially attributes just 5,200 deaths to COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, including fewer than 40 COVID deaths since Beijing lifted President Xi Jinping's strict but ultimately futile "zero COVID" strategy Dec. 7, The Washington Post reported Monday night.Chinese public health officials acknowledge that COVID spread rapidly after the lockdowns and mandatory testing were eased.But government censors are removing videos of long lines of mourners waiting to cremate dead family members, the Post reports.Some crematoriums have dispensed with memorial services and give the families 2 minutes to say good bye before cremation.Photos posted by The New York Times on Tuesday show patients filling hospital corridors, lonely deaths, rushed memorial services, and exhausted doctors and nurses in Shanghai last weekend, evoking the early days of the COVID pandemic in the U.S. and other Western countries."