COVID flashback: Here's how NPR reported on the coronavirus at a turning point

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COVID flashback: Here's how NPR reported on the coronavirus at a turning point
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Three years ago, the 'novel coronavirus' was declared a global health emergency. Here's a look at how NPR covered that turning point in the moment — and how much we all still had to learn.

regionally and globally and an emergency in China, as the country was rushing to set up quarantine and treatment facilities."But," he said,"it has not yet become a global health emergency.

As confirmed cases in China doubled in a matter of days, public health officials around the world took action. Countries tightened restrictions on travel from China. In Hong Kong, where eight cases were confirmed, authoritiesand urged people to work from home to slow person-to-person transmission — a preview of what would happen in the U.S. in March.

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