In Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control Dali L. Yang provides a definitive account of China's response to the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Examining the first six months of the outbreak, Yang details the government's handling of information about the epidemic and the decisions that shaped the scale and scope of the outbreak. Not just an unprecedented portrait of China's initial response to what quickly turned into a global pandemic, Yang provides a genuinely unique window into how the Chinese communist regime governs.