Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Coronavirus & Flu Update / Japanese Incarceration Photos / Novel Intertwines Wars’ Aftermath

Passengers arriving from a flight from Changsha in China are screened for the new type of coronavirus, whose symptoms are similar to the cold or flu and many other illnesses, upon their arrival in Nairobi, Kenya on Jan. 29, 2020.

AP Photo/Patrick Ngugi

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  Coronavirus Rapidly Spreads While Flu Season Continues

  Reports about the rapid spread of the coronavirus are creating fear. And the numbers are staggering: over 42,600 infections and more than 1,000 dead. Misinformation is spreading, too. Meanwhile, it’s still annual flu season.

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  ‘Behind Barbed Wire’: Photos Of Japanese American Incarceration

  As the 78th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 authorizing the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II approaches, a book of photographs of internees and their families captures the experience.

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  Novelist Puts World War II Japanese Incarceration Front And Center

  The novel "Phantoms" intertwines the histories of two fictional families — one is Japanese, the other is not — in the era of Japanese American incarceration. The story takes place in Placer County, where the book’s author grew up.

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