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Wrestling with (pan)demons

How did we let this happen?

10 September 2022

9:00 AM

10 September 2022

9:00 AM

Long ago, in February 2020, before the world changed, China’s doctors, citizen journalists and netizens were forced to share vital information about a novel coronavirus spreading in Wuhan by writing about it on social media in bites peppered with typos and emojis, written backwards, or translated into Morse code or the fictional language of Klingon.

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