When a handful of new coronavirus cases materialized this month in a province surrounding Beijing — apparently spread at a village wedding party — the Chinese authorities bolted into action. They locked down two cities with more than 17 million people, Shijiazhuang and Xingtai. They ordered a crash testing regime of nearly every resident there, …
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A fines de octubre pasado, en París, el vuelo de Duncan Clark recorría la pista cuando el presidente Emmanuel Macron anunció un segundo cierre de emergencia a nivel nacional en Francia. El país tuvo casi 50.000 nuevas infecciones ese día. Estados Unidos tuvo casi 100.000. Clark suspiró de alivio. Viajaba a China. Ese día, el …
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This article is copublished with ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative newsroom.[1] In the early hours of Feb. 7, China’s powerful internet censors experienced an unfamiliar and deeply unsettling sensation. They felt they were losing control. The news was spreading quickly that Li Wenliang, a doctor who had warned about a strange new viral outbreak[2] only to …
