The US CDC needed the DNA genome sequence of the virus, to be able to make the test kits. They proceeded in earnest once China cooperated and gave the USA the needed material. Correct me if I am wrong.
I am in the demographic that the sky is not falling.
Has everyone seen the line graph depicting the various historical epidemic strains overlaid upon each other? They all have predictable stages of varying behaviors. None identical, but many similar. First, a slow spread over time, a rapid rise in cases, a full blown outbreak, a peak, a rapid decline, a wind down, and recovery. All of them have a somewhat similar profile, as described.
The world’s population does not stay in an epidemic phase nonstop.
Epidemic strains
should read
epidemic outbreaks.