Unmasking a Crisis.

RESPIRATORY distress syndrome, Adult; VIRAL pneumonia; COMMUNICABLE diseases -- Government policy; EPIDEMICS; GOVERNMENT policy; MEDICAL care; CHINA -- Politics & government -- 1976-2002

Beech, Hannah; Hua, Bu; Yong, Huang; Jakes, Susan

Reports on the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in China. Indication that many people with the contagious disease are crammed in You'an Hospital in Beijing; View that China is handling the SARS epidemic rather secretly, in light of being the host to the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, and is also under-reporting the deadly pneumonia; Origination of SARS in Guangdong province in November 2002; Other provinces with cases of SARS virus; Examples of health workers who are speaking out about the government coverup; Impact of the information blackout of SARS news; Concern of the government for social stability rather than medical care.