TOKYO/KYOTO -- It was mid-March, just as the world was beginning to witness the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus. The World Health Organization had just declared a pandemic. In an apartment near Indiana State University, 23-year-old Emma Barnard had decided to self-isolate, struggling with allergy symptoms and chest pains.
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