FTA....
...Toner, an M.D. and researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, took part in a simulation, undertaken in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that posited such a disease could kill 65 million people within 18 months under the right circumstances.
Coronaviruses, with SARS among that group, are infections of the respiratory tract that can lead to illnesses like pneumonia or the common cold.
Toner told Business insider during an interview that he hasn’t completed research on the current strain of the Wuhan coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, but said that the death toll could run in the millions if the influenza were resistant to modern vaccines and was as easy to catch as the common flu....
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Ping.
Boy is this virus gonna have the last laugh if I end up gasping my last breath because of it while dozens of my bad beer jokes live on FR for eternity.
“that posited such a disease could kill 65 million people within 18 months under the right circumstances.”
I think those would be the wrong circumstances.
We need a practical list - a ‘to do’ before it gets here...