There are many things scientists really wish they knew about the coronavirus that has sickened thousands of people and caused at least 132 deaths.
The unprecedented lockdown of China’s seventh-largest city to cope with the coronavirus outbreak has turned Wuhan into “a ghost town,” says one American who lives there.Advertisement
Meanwhile, U.S. officials are watchful for the appearance of any coronavirus infections that are unrelated to the five known cases already inside the United States. All five of the U.S. patients had traveled to China shortly before they got sick. The emergence of a patient who never left American soil might lead them to a person who had become infected in China and either wasn’t sick when he arrived in the U.S. or did not become sick at all.
, a Georgetown University expert on epidemics. “It’s just very, very hard to bring [an outbreak] under control” under such circumstances, he said., who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called for calm. Historically speaking, he said, asymptomatic infection “has never been the driver of outbreaks.”It’s important to know this for several reasons.
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