the American public shouldn’t worry about the coronavirus outbreak in China
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This is a stupid thing to say (and just adds to the people’s mistrust of our government.
He could have said, “It is still early in the outbreak and we do not have enough information to make an informed decision at this time. We will monitor the situation and alert the public if things change. For now, as long as you have not had contact with someone from China you should be ok”
The thing that concerns me is air travel and the fact that someone could be contagious but not show any symptoms.
It is reported that the incubation period is 14 days. So one sick person could infect and entire plane and those people could go on and infect many more and no one would know for at least 14 days.
That is how a pandemic is spread.
Let us see what the situation is in 14 days before telling us we have nothing to worry about.
It's hard to produce a lot of viruses without showing some symptoms.