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How San Francisco's Chinatown kept coronavirus in check

Season 2020 Episode 210 | 5m 06s

California is enduring an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. But one community has succeeded at keeping the virus at bay -- offering potential lessons on what happens when early action to respond to the pandemic is taken. Meiying Wu and Alyson Stamos, reporters at the University of California, Berkeley, share this story from San Francisco’s Chinatown.

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