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The pandemic inspired a cartoonist to explore their Wuhanese roots and queer identity

Apr 24, 2022
In the funny and heartfelt coming-of-age graphic memoir 'Messy Roots,' artist Laura Gao unpacks their relationship with their Asianness, queerness and their ever-changing home city of Wuhan.
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Security guards stand in front of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 11, 2020, after the market had been closed following an outbreak of COVID-19 there. Two new studies document samples of SARS-CoV-2 from stalls where live anima

Striking new evidence points to seafood market in Wuhan as pandemic origin point

Mar 03, 2022
Two studies point to a link between the animals at the seafood market and the spread of SARS-CoV-2 — foreshadowed by photos from 2014 of raccoon dogs and birds. A top virus sleuth gives the details.
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Asia
Pro-democracy activists (right) hold placards with the picture of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan as they march to the Chinese central government's liaison office in Hong Kong in Dec. 2020.

A citizen journalist who shined a light on the pandemic in Wuhan may die in prison

Nov 11, 2021
"If she does not make it past the coming winter, I hope the world will remember her as she once was," Zhang Zhan's brother said. She posted videos of Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic.
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National Security
CIA Director William Burns says he has appointed a senior officer who led the hunt for Osama bin Laden to head the investigation into ailments that have afflicted U.S. officials around the world.

CIA Director Says He Is Escalating Efforts To Solve 'Havana Syndrome' Mystery

Jul 22, 2021
In an NPR interview, William Burns says he has appointed a senior officer who led the hunt for Osama bin Laden to head the investigation into ailments that has afflicted U.S. officials worldwide.
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President Biden directed the intelligence agencies to look for evidence of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (pictured). Many scientists still think its more likely the virus came form the wild.

Many Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature

May 28, 2021
President Biden told U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate whether the coronavirus spread after a lab leak in China. Scientists welcome the request, but many still think it came from the wild.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
A laboratory on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province in May 2020. Focus has turned back to the facility as a possible origin of the coronavirus pandemic.

Why A Lab In Wuhan Is Worth A Closer Look As A Possible Source Of The Pandemic

May 27, 2021
With the focus shifting again to a Wuhan, China, lab, Dr. Céline Gounder, a COVID-19 adviser to the Biden transition team, says it's important to find the pandemic's origins to prevent the next one.
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World Health Organization investigative team member Peter Daszak (shown here during a trip to China in February) tells NPR that the group's report calls for additional research on farms that breed exotic animals in southern China.

WHO Report: Wildlife Farms, Not Market, Likely Source Of Coronavirus Pandemic

Mar 29, 2021
NPR has obtained an early copy of the report, which states that the coronavirus most likely did not originate at the wet market in Wuhan and that a lab leak was "an extremely unlikely pathway."
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Why Pandemics Give Birth To Hate: From Bubonic Plague To COVID-19

Mar 26, 2021
The Atlanta shooting has led to heated discussion about the blame — and violence — aimed at Asians during the pandemic. It's the latest example in a long history of hatred fueled by disease.
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Bamboo rats are among the wild animals farmed for food in China and other parts of Asia. A member of the World Health Organization team investigating the coronavirus pandemic says its report will conclude that such animal farms are likely the place where

WHO Points To Wildlife Farms In Southern China As Likely Source Of Pandemic

Mar 15, 2021
Peter Daszak of the investigative team sent to Wuhan says the farms were probably where the coronavirus first jumped from bats to another animal before infecting humans.
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Coronavirus Updates
Peter Ben Embarek, of the World Health Organization team (right) shakes hands with Liang Wannian, his Chinese counterpart, after a news conference on Tuesday in Wuhan, China. The White House says it has "deep concerns" over how initial findings were comm

White House: China Must Release Data From The 'Earliest Days Of The Outbreak'

Feb 13, 2021
The White House has "deep concerns" over how initial findings on the coronavirus were communicated and demands China make data available to investigators, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says.
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A health officer in a protective suit collects a sample from a package of imported frozen food for coronavirus rapid test at a wholesale market in China.

Can Frozen Food Spread The Coronavirus?

Feb 12, 2021
At a news conference this week, the World Health Organization made a surprising statement: The coronavirus could possibly transmit on frozen packages of food.
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Coronavirus Updates
Peter Ben Embarek speaks during a news conference to wrap up a visit by an international team of experts from the World Health Organization in the city of Wuhan, China, on Tuesday.

WHO: 'Very Unlikely' Coronavirus Leaked From Lab, More Study Needed To Trace Source

Feb 09, 2021
The coronavirus is "very unlikely" to have started in a Chinese lab but its path from animals to humans needs further investigation, a World Health Organization team said after visiting Wuhan.
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A woman walks in a park along Yangtze River in Wuhan on Jan. 19, 2021. Residents of the city of 11 million, which was the first epicenter of COVID-19, have conflicting emotions as they reckon with the aftermath of the virus and their 76-day lockdown.

Wuhan's Lockdown Memories One Year Later: Pride, Anger, Deep Pain

Jan 23, 2021
Jan. 23 marks the one-year anniversary of the strict lockdown imposed on the first epicenter of COVID-19. Here's what residents have to say about their experience.
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Asia
A pro-democracy activist holds placards with the picture of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan outside the Chinese central government's liaison office, in Hong Kong, Monday. Activists demand the release of Zhang, as well as the 12 Hong Kong activists

U.S. And EU Condemn Jailing Of Lawyer Who Reported On Coronavirus In Wuhan

Dec 29, 2020
Zhang Zhan was detained in May after reporting on the coronavirus response in China. Now, she faces years in prison as officials try to silence reports that differ from their own.
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11 Original NPR Comics That Brought Joy, Hope And Help During The Pandemic

Dec 23, 2020
In 2020, NPR created and published more than a dozen comics for the pandemic — everything from how to explain it to kids to how to help the older people in your life.
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A scene from <em>76 Days,</em> a new documentary about frontline health workers and patients during Wuhan's lockdown.

A Doc About Wuhan's Lockdown Was 'Too Real' For My Wuhan-Born Dad. I'm Glad I Watched

Dec 19, 2020
The reviewer's father, who was born in Wuhan and lived there until he was 28, couldn't bear to keep watching. But she did — and was deeply moved by this new documentary film.
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From left: Deng Ge is a rap mogul who became a lockdown activist. Poet Sally Wen Mao Mao uses her art to express her anger about how Chinese people are being portrayed in the pandemic. Writer and comic artist Laura Gao, living in the U.S., has a video ch

How 3 Women From Wuhan Cope With COVID: Rap, Poetry And Moonpies

Oct 14, 2020
We interview a rap mogul (turned community volunteer), an author focused on a nine-tailed fox and a grandmother with a sense of humor. They're part of our special report on women facing the pandemic.
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On Jan. 23, workers started building the Huoshenshan hospital for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China. The photo above was taken on Jan. 30. Construction was done on Feb. 2, and the 1,000-bed hospital opened on Feb. 3. Today it stands empty of patients.

Whatever Happened To ... The Instant Hospitals Built For COVID-19 Patients In Wuhan?

Sep 10, 2020
Two hospitals were built in a matter of days to house the growing number of patients. Existing facilities were converted to health care centers as well. And now, what happened to them?
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Left: Xi Lu had traveled to Wuhan in January to spend the Lunar New Year with his parents, having not been with his them for the holiday in over seven years. Lin Yang, an epidemiologist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University also traveled to Wuhan to visit

Whatever Happened To ... 2 Of The Visitors Who Got Stuck In Wuhan During The Pandemic

Sep 04, 2020
An epidemiologist and a grad school graduate who'd gone to see family reflect on how tough it was to be cut off — and what they learned from their months-long quarantine.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
A resident walks across an empty track on Feb. 7 in Wuhan, China. Wuhan residents lived through the start of the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives around the world.

'We No Longer Wish For Much': People Of Wuhan Share Stories Of Loss And Survival

Jun 26, 2020
Meet some of the people in China who lived through the start of the coronavirus pandemic. They have not forgotten the weeks of isolation, fear and heartbreak.
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This Bornean horseshoe bat and other bat species can harbor coronaviruses. The nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance had U.S. government funding for an ongoing research project in China on bats and coronaviruses — until the money was cut on April 24.

77 Nobel Laureates Denounce Trump Officials For Pulling Coronavirus Research Grant

May 22, 2020
In a letter sent to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, these U.S. scientists said they were "gravely concerned" about the abrupt termination of a federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
<em>Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City</em>, by Fang Fang

'Wuhan Diary' Brings Account Of China's Coronavirus Outbreak To English Speakers

May 13, 2020
Before COVID-19 engulfed the Chinese city of Wuhan, Fang Fang was already an award-winning novelist. But her chronicle of the lockdown of her hometown might be her most lasting work.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
A worker checks a passenger's body temperature on Tuesday after arriving in Wuhan, China. Earlier this week, authorities found at least six new cases of the coronavirus.

Wuhan To Test All 11 Million Residents After New Coronavirus Cases Emerge

May 12, 2020
Wuhan, where the world's first coronavirus cases were reported in late December, eased many restrictions in early April. But earlier this week, authorities found at least six new cases.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
A woman wears a face mask on Monday as she walks along a street in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. Wuhan reported new cases of COVID-19 after going more than a month without new infections.

Wuhan Reports New COVID-19 Cases — The City's 1st In More Than A Month

May 11, 2020
Nearly all of the new cluster's cases are asymptomatic — reflecting the difficulty of detecting the true spread of the coronavirus as lockdowns are lifted.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Air Force One on May 5.

As Trump Pushes Theory Of Virus Origins, Some See Parallels To Iraq

May 06, 2020
The White House continues to say the coronavirus may have leaked from a Chinese lab. That's at odds with the assessment of the intelligence community and reminds some of the run-up to the Iraq war.

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