“The Wuhan authorities withheld the truth and covered it up at the beginning,” said Yuan Li, a Wuhan resident. Yuan Li, an editor for an online local lifestyle publication in Wuhan, China where she lives, said she did not realize the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in the city of eleven million until she traveled to Macau before the Chinese New Year and watched CNN news in her hotel room. “I’m still mad at the Wuhan mayor, Hubei governor and some other bureaucrats,” she said.