How planning and early action helped San Francisco’s Chinatown control coronavirus

Street scene in Chinatown featuring a detailed mural of a woman in traditional Chinese opera attire on a building. A man walks by the mural, and several pedestrians, possibly students from Berkeley Journalism, are seen in the background. Storefronts and street signage add to the urban atmosphere.

Jul 15, 2020

California is enduring an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. But one community has succeeded at keeping the virus at bay — offering potential lessons on how early action on the pandemic can change outcomes. Meiying Wu and Alyson Stamos, reporters at the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley, share this story from San Francisco’s Chinatown.

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Christian Collins ( 2020 )

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Meiying Wu ( 2020 )

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