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Shanghai hospital pays the price for China’s COVID response

FILE - Residents hold up the Communist Party flag and the Chinese national flag as others prepare to take part in the first round of mass COVID tests in the Jingan district of western Shanghai, China, on April 1, 2022. Shanghai's lockdown is an abrupt about-face from just a month ago, when some Chinese health experts publicly suggested softening pandemic control measures. (AP Photo/Chen Si, File) FILE - Residents line up for the first round of mass COVID testing in the Jingan district of western Shanghai, China, Friday, April 1, 2022. Shanghai's harsh lockdown is an abrupt about-face from just a month ago, when some Chinese health experts publicly suggested softening pandemic control measures. (AP Photo/Chen Si, File) FILE - Workers in protective gear help a man in a wheelchair during the mass testing for residents in a lockdown area in the Jingan district of western Shanghai on April 4, 2022. Shanghai's lockdown is an abrupt about-face from just a month ago, when some Chinese health experts publicly suggested softening pandemic control measures. (AP Photo/Chen Si, File) In this photo released by the family of Shen Peiming, Shen Peiming, 71, eats a banana as a family member attends to her at her bed side at the Shanghai Donghai Elderly Care hospital on Sept. 24, 2019. Shen died Sunday morning, April 3, 2022, at the hospital, without her loved ones by her side. Her family, unable to visit because of pandemic restrictions, is unsure of the circumstances of her death. The hospital had reported a COVID-19 outbreak, but Shen had tested negative, as of last week. (Family of Shen Peiming via AP)