Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New Coronavirus

Re:Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New C... by kenneth on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:01AM (#22167365)

I've been following this closely since Jan 2nd. This is looking like it will be far worse than SARS and MERS, and far harder to contain. I imagine it'll look a lot closer to the Spanish flu.

I wonder what absolutely drastic measures China could implement to get this under control. Short of a total curfew of the country for a few weeks, I don't know what they can do to prevent a full blown pandemic at this stage.

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Re:Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New C... by gexla on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:26AM (#22167511)

I believe we're only a couple days out from the total confirmed cases of Coronavirus to match the total confirmed cases of SARS. At that point, SARS will still have far more deaths.

There's a lot of graphs on projections vs actual numbers since this thing started being heavily tracked. I don't know what sources are most authoritative. Each seem to work on different timelines but all show fast growth.

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Re:Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New C... by Scarblac on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:44AM (#22167867)

Well at the time the SARS cases were confirmed, those individuals weren't dead yet either. That happens some time later.

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Re:Experts Warn of Possible Sustained Global Spread of New C... by yread on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:38AM (#22167566)

It should exceed the old SARS day after tomorrow if it keeps on that exponential curve.

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