In Wuhan, China, people with mild COVID-19 cases were taken to large facilities and not permitted to see their families. “Infected people must be isolated.
That should happen everywhere,” George Gao says. By Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.Chinese scientists at the front of that country’s outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have not been particularly accessible to foreign media.
Many have been overwhelmed trying to understand their epidemic and combat it, and responding to media requests, especially from journalists outside of China, has not been a top priority.Science has tried to interview George Gao, director-general of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for