The Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in China, where authorities have placed travel restrictions on more than 48 million people in over a dozen cities. For this week’s interview on Trend Lines, Jeremy Youde joins WPR’s Elliot Waldman for a conversation about the response to the outbreak.

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