Talk at China Institute: When Fear Goes Viral

 

China Institute
40 Rector St. 2nd Fl.
 
Wednesday, March 4, 6:30 - 8:00 PM
40 Rector St. 2nd fl.
 
Health experts Huang Yanzhong and Joan Kaufman, and Wuhan University Alumni Association President Andrew Mao will explore what to do when a virus not only threatens our health, but also our humanity.
More About the Program:
As the number of infected individuals has continued to grow exponentially and Chinese society has all but ground to a halt, the world's critical gaze has turned to China - and to the Chinese people.
Nearly two decades after the outbreak of SARS in 2003, what lessons have actually been learned? Did early communication failures stoke the flames of pandemic, or has China's unique system allowed the government to take unprecedented control? How should international governments react? Where is the public sympathy - global citizens who stood with Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake,  with Paris after the 2015 shooting, and with Australia during the 2019 wildfires, but who have been all but absent in today's growing crisis.