https://mobile.twitter.com/YaxueCao/status/1221481785890164736
desperation.
Also means they suspect the virus, ‘outside’, isn’t broken down by UV easily.
China coronavirus spread is accelerating, Xi Jinping warns
26 January 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51249208
How worried should we be?
Based on early information, it is believed that only a quarter of infected cases are “severe”, and the dead are mostly - though not exclusively - older people, some of whom have pre-existing conditions.
The Chinese authorities suspect a seafood market that “conducted illegal transactions of wild animals” was the source of the outbreak.
Why is there concern about containing the virus?
Scientists at the respected MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis in the UK have warned that it may not be possible to contain the virus to China.
They say self-sustaining human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus is the “only plausible explanation” for the scale of the epidemic.
Their calculations estimate each infected person is passing it onto, on average, 2.5 other people.
The centre praised the efforts of the Chinese authorities, but said transmission of the virus needed to be cut by 60% in order to get on top of the outbreak.
What concerns me is people flooding to the hospital. They should station army troops outside the hospital with a triage nurse determining who gets in. I bet a lot of those people waiting in the ER don’t have the virus, and shouldn’t even be there. It burns out the medical staff, and provides a nice environment for the virus to spread.