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Hong Kong (CNN) — A few months ago, I boarded a plane from New York City (where I was visiting my partner and siblings) to Hong Kong (where I'm from). The last time I was in the United States was in January; the first known local case of Covid-19 had just been detected in Seattle and the virus was beginning to spread across the West Coast. The World Health Organization hadn't yet declared the coronavirus a pandemic. By October 2020, the States passed a bleak milestone of recording more than 210,000 coronavirus-related deaths -- the most in any country in...
