translated from Spanish: A group of coronavirus-affected people in the U.S. sued China

Before coronavirus, Saundra Andringa-Meuer was a healthy 61-year-old woman, a mother of six, who did not smoke or drink alcohol. But COVID-19 sickened her seriously after traveling from her home in Wisconsin to help her son move out of college in Connecticut.La hospitalized in March, ending up in a coma and with an artificial respirator for 14 days. Doctors told his family he had little chance of living. When she recovered, she was told she was the most severe coronavirus patient they had seen succeed. Now, Andringa-Meuer, along with dozens of COVID-19 patients and some U.S. companies, seeks to sue China for the spread of the virus, which has killed at least 75,000 people in the United States.” I feel like they hid it from the world and the Americans,” he said. “I don’t feel like we should miss the wedding or have to close the economy. The lives of all Americans were interrupted. I think we need to correct some of these mistakes,” she said. So far, at least nine U.S. lawsuits have been filed against China alleging that the authorities did not do enough to contain the virus from the outset, tried to hide what was happening in the city of Wuhan, where the outbreak began, and sought to hide their actions and what they knew. Eight of the trials are potential class actions that could represent thousands of individuals and businesses. One was filed by The Missouri Attorney General, who is so far the only state to have taken legal action against China.Cases face several obstacles under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act, which states that foreign governments cannot be sued in the United States unless certain exceptions are met. And that’s not easy to prove, experts say.

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