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    Chinese Americans Have Seen This Before

    The lockdowns, equipment shortages, and overburdened hospitals feel all too familiar.
    by Sarah Zhang Apr 03, 2020 4 minutes
    Source: Erin Brethauer

    Back in January, when a mysterious virus in Wuhan still seemed like faraway news, Mei Mei and her husband bought N95 masks and two boxes of hand sanitizer to take to her elderly parents, who live 300 miles east of the Chinese city. Mei, 48, a real-estate agent in Fremont, California, had planned to bring the supplies on a trip to China to celebrate her parents’ 60th wedding anniversary. Then Wuhan went into lockdown, and all of it was canceled.

    Mei still mailed the masks to her parents, but not the hand sanitizer—“which became such a blessing,” she told me, because hand sanitizer

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