Coronavirus: From A Scare In Shanghai To A Quarantine In Georgia – One Family’s Experience

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March 5th, 2020

Masked residents walk through a deserted subway station in Shanghai, China, in January. While visiting Shanghai with her family earlier this year, Athens, Georgia, resident Holly Bik noted that the bustling metropolis they were familiar with during previous trips had visibly changed. “Everyone was just staying indoors.”

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By Jillian Tracy, Madeline Laguaite, Brittany Carter and Andi Clements

Before traveling to China in late January, Holly Bik and her husband watched countless news reports and read as much as they could about the novel coronavirus, which had been detected in the country a few weeks earlier.

Bik’s husband is from China. (She prefers not to publicize his name because of the sensitive situation in his homeland, but he is on an academic fellowship at the University of Georgia.) The couple, who live in Athens, had their first baby last June, and wanted the infant to meet his great-grandfather, who was recovering from surgery in a district called Qingpu, a suburb of Shanghai.

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