ReviewPreventive medicine reports2023
Reflections on the dynamic zero-COVID policy in China.
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- The impact of China's non-pharmaceutical interventions on economic growth during COVID-19: a provincial-level panel analysis.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- COVID-19 infection during the Omicron wave changed carotid structure compared with uninfected controls: a longitudinal study.BMC medical imaging · 2026Article
- Experiences of individuals undergoing maintenance hemodialysis during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: a qualitative study.BMC nephrology · 2025Article
- Changes in health-related quality of life and inequality in China: evidence from a nationwide repeated cross-sectional survey (2021-2023).Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
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- Shifting epidemic trends and severity in pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in the post-COVID-19 era.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Epidemiological characteristics and disease burden of bacterial meningitis in hospitalized children in China: a 6-year nationwide retrospective study.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Recombinant XBB.1.5 boosters induce robust neutralization against KP.2- and KP.3-included JN.1 sublineages.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025Article
- Health system delay and risk factors in pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis before and during the COVID-19 epidemic: a multi-center survey in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Efficiency evaluation on case finding strategy for COVID-19 outbreak control under China's "dynamic zero-case policy": a retrospective field epidemiology study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Observational
- Factors influencing the time to COVID-19 antigen tests negative conversion among students at a Chinese university: a retrospective analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- The spatiotemporal analysis of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in China since the termination of the dynamic zero-COVID policy.Virologica Sinica · 2024Article
- The mediating effect of resilience and COVID-19 anxiety on the relationship between social support and insomnia among healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a serious threat to global healthcare and economy. In order to curb its spread, China adopted the dynamic zero-COVID policy, aiming to diagnose and isolate cases and close contacts as soon as possible. However, there is a controversy about the impact of isolation measures on social order, including the economy, personal employment and public mental health. Therefore, this review discusses and analyzes in detail the advantages and challenges of implementing dynamic zero-COVID policy. Although this public health policy might cause a shock to the economy in the short term, China still achieved a continued healthy economic performance with stable unemployment and strong export growth. Moreover, the rates of infection and mortality in China were lower than those in the United States and the European Union. However, due to the high transmissibility and low pathogenicity of the Omicron variant and prolonged lockdown-induced psychological damage, people questioned the effectiveness and necessity of this policy. Now that China has adjusted its policy in a timely manner, but many problems still remain unsolved. Some practical suggestions in terms of mental health, vaccine development, drugs supply, and economic recovery are put forward at the end of our paper to minimize negative impacts and provide a reference for future efforts.
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