Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, Experts Say

New York Times ^ | Feb 3, 2020 | Donald G. McNeil jr

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The Wuhan coronavirus spreading from China is now likely to become a pandemic that circles the globe, according to many of the world’s leading infectious disease experts.

The prospect is daunting. A pandemic — an ongoing epidemic on two or more continents — may well have global consequences, despite the extraordinary travel restrictions and quarantines now imposed by China and other countries, including the United States.

Scientists do not yet know how lethal the new coronavirus is, however, so there is uncertainty about how much damage a pandemic might cause. But there is growing consensus that the pathogen is readily transmitted between humans.

The Wuhan coronavirus is spreading more like influenza, which is highly transmissible, than like its slow-moving viral cousins, SARS and MERS, scientists have found...

[SoConPubbie]

We agree about the type of government they have too.

I know D1.

My post was more for the benefit of watchers and those freepers who are not looking at the source of the false numbers.