China’s coronavirus hunters adopt Sherlock Holmes’ methods to trace patients

Old-fashioned detective work of the kind made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle in his stories of Sherlock Holmes has been a key weapon in China’s fight against the spread of the coronavirus.While Shanghai is a long way from 221B Baker Street, and she has no supportive Dr Watson at her side, epidemiologist Gong Xiaohuan has been assiduously following the clues, like a modern-day Holmes, as one of the city’s 700-odd “virus hunters”.For months Gong, 32, has been tracking and chasing down coronavirus…

from South China Morning Post https://bit.ly/2xu0gC9