A UCLA professor helped control China’s COVID-19 epidemic when it first emerged, but he worries about rising global COVID-19 cases. Zunyou Wu, an adjunct professor of epidemiology in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was among the first scientists to study SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, when it first surfaced in Wuhan, China, in late December. Read more...
Photo: Zunyou Wu, an adjunct professor of epidemiology in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was a key figure in China’s fight against COVID-19 and helped control its spread. (Courtesy of Zunyou Wu)
