Coronavirus: China Has Quarantined 50 Million People. Experts Worry That Might Backfire – Los Angeles Times

Read article - Quotes Elizabeth Talbot, professor of medicine, in an article about the quarantine measures being taken in China to curb the spread of coronavirus. Chinese authorities have indefinitely barred 50 million people from traveling and advised them to stay home to contain the rapidly spreading virus. "We would almost certainly not do any quarantine on the scope that China is doing now," Talbot said of the United States' methods for handling disease outbreaks. "We have a different cultural acceptance of restriction of our rights, and quarantine always bumps up against that."