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In this Jan. 23, 2020, file photo, a policeman uses a digital thermometer to take a driver's temperature at a checkpoint at a highway toll gate in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Cutting off access to entire cities with millions of residents to stop a new virus outbreak is a step few countries other than China would consider, but it is made possible by the ruling Communist Party's extensive social controls and experience fighting the 2002-03 outbreak of SARS. (Chinatopix via AP)

Social controls, SARS experience help China close off cities

Cutting off access to entire cities with millions of residents to stop a new virus outbreak is a step few countries other than China would consider.

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J. Joseph Kim, co-founder and CEO of Inovio Pharmaceuticals. (Rich Myers)

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Montco biopharm firm gets $9M grant to battle China’s new coronavirus

Inovio Pharmaceuticals received a grant to support development of a vaccine against the recently emerged strain of coronavirus.

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