COVID-19: Bittersweet aid from Chinese in the US

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Editor's note: We don’t have a paywall for most of our stories on Coronavirus and its impact. Support us and subscribe here. For the past two months, Chinese organizations and individuals in the US have sent countless parcels of supplies over land and sea to the coronavirus outbreak epicentre in Wuhan, as well as to other provinces with smaller clusters. But as the situation in China began to stabilize, it became more apparent with each passing day that the US was about to face the same kind of harrowing protective gear shortages that plagued China during the peak of the outbreak in February. Sean Shi, a Wuhan University of Technology alumnus, is an active member of the United American Chinese of Washington, a local community disaster relief organization that has very actively contributed to donation efforts to China. While the coronavirus was not even a blip on most Americans’ radars, Shi and fellow volunteers already mobilized to send aid to their beloved Wuhan. On 23 January, the day the Chinese government quarantined Wuhan and placed the city of 11 million on full …