“My whole family canceled their tickets.”Jack Huang, a 76-year-old businessman in Rowland Heights, Calif., said he was worried about how easily the virus could spread in the United States. “I am really hesitant on meeting clients coming in directly from China, especially hearing about the mass quarantines,” Mr. Huang said. In New York, Ms. Lee-Ludovicy said her children had been excited at the prospect of the field trip to Chinatown, planning to go with a group of other students who are studying Mandarin. With the trip canceled, Ms. Lee-Ludovicy said, she and her family planned to drive to the celebrations on their own. But she worried that her two children, a daughter in middle school and a son in high school, were facing discrimination in ways they had not before.

Source: New York Times January 25, 2020 00:56 UTC