The new coronavirus from China spreads as readily as 1918 Spanish flu and probably originated in bats before ultimately infecting humans.
If the coronavirus outbreak in China were a Hollywood movie, now would be time to panic. But in real life, most Americans have no need, experts say.While much more needs to be known about the coronavirus’ spread, the early numbers offer a glimpse of the challenge ahead, Cummings said.
“Considerable efforts to reduce transmission will be required to control outbreaks if similar dynamics apply elsewhere,” a team led by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine. The team also cited “limited resources for isolation of cases and quarantine of their close contacts” as an impediment.Despite suspicions prompted by its secretive management of the SARS outbreak in 2003, the Chinese government has insisted it responded quickly to the appearance of a new virus, and has held nothing back from the Chinese public or international community.that China notified it on Dec. 31 that the agency it was seeing cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan.
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