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How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control: Agency, Cognition, and the Politics of Information

Oct 2024
08

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Tarble Room, Brown Hall

This lecture investigates the processes that were impacted during COVID-19.

Dr. Dali Yang, William Claude Reavis Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago joins us to talk on China's health emergency response to Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. This lecture specifically investigates the political and bureaucratic processes that hindered information flows, limiting understanding of the virus's contagiousness and hampered effective decision making.

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Contact Kirsten Schramm at 847-735-5167 or kschramm@lakeforest.edu at least 72 hours in advance.