{"id":42949,"date":"2009-07-30T21:06:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T04:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=42949"},"modified":"2009-07-30T21:06:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T04:06:03","slug":"sheryl-gay-stolberg-swine-flu-diary-caught-in-a-beijing-dragnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/07\/sheryl-gay-stolberg-swine-flu-diary-caught-in-a-beijing-dragnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheryl Gay Stolberg: Swine Flu Diary: Caught in a Beijing Dragnet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, White House correspondent for the New York Times, writes a personal account<\/a>, together with her daughter, Olivia, of Olivia’s experiences being quarantined for swine flu while studying in Beijing. From her introduction:<\/p>\n

\n The phone rang at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 18, jarring me out of an uneasy sleep. My husband and I had been dreading this call. It was our 14-year-old daughter, Olivia, on a language study trip in Beijing. She is usually calm and upbeat. Now she was frantic and crying:<\/p>\n

\u201cMommy, I have a temperature and I\u2019m coughing, and they\u2019re taking me to the hospital. I want to come home.\u201d<\/p>\n

I told her to take a deep breath, even as I was shaking. We had feared Olivia could get caught in China\u2019s swine flu dragnet; now those fears had come to pass in what would become a nightmare of bureaucracy and language barriers, against the sleep-depriving backdrop of a 12-hour time difference.<\/p>\n

As a White House correspondent and former science writer for The New York Times, I have a professional understanding of international relations and how epidemics spread. My daughter and I are getting a deeply personal lesson in both. Here \u2014 as a mother-daughter journal, with Olivia\u2019s dictations from a phone in the hospital \u2014 is our story. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, White House correspondent for the New York Times, writes a personal account, together with her daughter, Olivia, of Olivia’s experiences being quarantined for swine flu while studying in Beijing. From her introduction: The phone rang at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 18, jarring me out of an uneasy sleep. 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