'4: Even the author of the new 2.6 report admits that we need to plan for chance that “CONTAINMENT OF THIS EPIDEMIC ISN’T POSSIBLE”. Hence I’m not being uniquely distressed about this — the public health concern is very real!! (
January 25, 2020)
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7: the author of the 2.6 transmission report now acknowledges that given the way the #coronavirus is trending, “the evidence now suggests it is now rational to start planning for the scenario that containment efforts may not succeed.” We should hope for best but prepare for worst.' (
January 26, 2020)
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding (
Harvard)
Context(Ground all global flights, quarantine China) - '..this new coranavirus can easily spread..'(WHO failure) CNN - '..the World Health Organization's decision to hold off on declaring the outbreak "a public health emergency of international concern" is baffling..'(CNN) - '..people can spread it before they have symptoms .. a "game changer." .. this new piece of information called into question the current US practices for containing the virus..'