COVID tests, isolation hotels and a burner phone: An ADN reporter’s trip to Beijing.
Anchorage Daily News reporter Nat Herz sports a face shield at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Saturday, on the first leg of his journey to Beijing to cover the Olympic Games.
Those plans are a trip to Beijing to cover the 2022 Winter Olympics there — which is simultaneously an enormous privilege and an Olympic-level pain in the you-know-what. For the past several weeks, I’ve been recording my daily temperature and symptoms on a Beijing Olympics website. Before my flight to Asia, I have to take two separate, sensitive COVID tests at a Chinese government-approved lab — of which there are none in Alaska — hence a three-day layover in Los Angeles.
Knowing that a single misstep could torpedo my trip has been intensely stressful, particularly as COVID case rates in Alaska have spiked to all-time highs in the lead-up to my departure.
All that, and my near-crippling COVID anxiety notwithstanding, I’m thrilled. There are always compelling, interesting stories at the Olympics. I’m eager to bring them to an American audience and I plan to push the limits of the Beijing bubble almost until it pops.
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