The tide of the pandemic has shifted to Europe and the U.S. But in China, new concerns are developing.
in Hubei province alone. But last week, it announced that it had no new locally transmitted cases.
To better understand what we can—and can’t—learn from a country that’s been through the worst of the pandemic already, Slate spoke with Sophia Yan, the China correspondent for the Telegraph, about what it’s been like to watch this virus emerge and span the globe, what life is like in China now, and what Americans should be on the lookout for. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.When it began, I was on vacation like everybody else over the New Year.
Now, there’s some doubt over whether the numbers we’re getting in terms of local transmissions are accurate because a few weeks ago, China changed how we would count confirmed cases, and almost immediately the numbers began to fall. There’s always a little bit of a nagging sense that we don’t have the full picture in China.Yeah, I think there’s some knowledge.
I was worried about the safety of my colleagues and my friends. Some of my friends left the country. In the beginning, I had a lot of friends and family outside of China telling me to leave the country. I was worried, of course. I’m human. But honestly, through all of this, I hadn’t known how panicked I should be. Because you’re in the middle of it, and things just kept happening.We still have the risk of a second outbreak in any of the countries.
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