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    Invisible Influencers

    May 21, 2020 4 minutes
    By Li Fangfang
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    When Ji Jin flew into Italy in March, it was the height of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic there and her work meant direct exposure to high risk. She was an interpreter for the Chinese medical team that had been sent to work with Italian doctors on COVID-19 prevention and control.

    For Ji, there was something personal about the assignment. She is from Mianzhu, a city in Sichuan Province in southwest China, and in her diary, she wrote her other reason. In 2008, when a massive earthquake hit Sichuan, Italy built an emergency hospital in her hometown to provide assistance. “So this time, I am grateful that I

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