{"id":36804,"date":"2021-09-13T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/dr-zhang-wenhong-face-of-china-covid-battle"},"modified":"2021-09-13T18:42:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:42:02","slug":"chinas-dr-fauci-how-zhang-wenhong-became-the-face-of-beijings-covid-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36804","title":{"rendered":"\u2018China\u2019s Dr Fauci\u2019: How Zhang Wenhong became the face of Beijing\u2019s Covid battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expert\u2019s clever analogies and frank messages to public have won him respect \u2013 and millions of followers<\/p>\n<p>Early last year, as Covid-19 began to disrupt livelihoods in Shanghai, local media struggled to persuade the public to stay at home. Then they turned to an infectious diseases expert, Dr Zhang Wenhong, who also heads up Shanghai\u2019s expert panel on Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re bored to death at home, so the virus will be bored to death, too,\u201d Zhang said in rapid-fire mandarin mixed with a distinctive Shanghainese accent. \u201cStay at home for two weeks \u2026 then we\u2019ll be an inch closer to success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/dr-zhang-wenhong-face-of-china-covid-battle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert\u2019s clever analogies and frank messages to public have won him respect \u2013 and millions of followersEarly last year, as Covid-19 began to disrupt livelihoods in Shanghai, local media struggled to persuade the public to stay at home. Then they turned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1066,914,512,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36805,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36804\/revisions\/36805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}