Customers wear face masks inside a shopping mall in Wuhan, China, a city at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, on Saturday, in this image taken from video. (Jovis and Marissa/Reuters) BEIJING — In China’s Hubei province, authorities are waging a desperate struggle to supply protective equipment, testing kits and hospital beds as the sick pour into clinics and confirmed cases of the new coronavirus mount. But holed up in apartment blocks across an area the size of Washington state, tens of millions of others who are symptom-free are fending off cabin fever. Nearly a week into a quarantine of unprecedented scale, as many as 54 million people trapped in the outbreak’s epicenter, Wuhan, and the densely populated plains lining the Yangtze River are beginning to adjust to a surreal new reality that could last weeks, if not longer. Transportation services have largely ground to a halt and most […]