A Chinese-American woman called the Chinese-language Epoch Times office in New York City on Feb. 9 to express her gratitude for the media company. She learned about the severity of the new coronavirus (formally named COVID-19) outbreak when she watched The Epoch Times’ Chinese-language YouTube channel during a visit to Beijing in late January. YouTube is banned inside China, but many use VPN software in order to bypass the country’s firewall.
The Epoch Times’ video reports helped her make the right decision; she immediately booked a return flight to the United States and left China before Chinese cities were quarantined one after another.
