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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by guiomie on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:43PM (#22195327)
Could you add the timeframe of each pandemic? I believe the coronavirus is 1-2 months old, but how long was SARS to get to 774? I feel like the comparaison isn't great without timeline.
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by arkadiyt on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:51PM (#22195429)
Here are some graphs showing exactly that:

https://ncov.r6.no/

It's also worth noting that the ~8k confirmed cases are bottlenecked by how fast China can perform tests. Here's an article guesstimating that there were up to 100k infections a few days ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-...

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by alamortsubite on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:10PM (#22195624)
> It's also worth noting that the ~8k confirmed cases are bottlenecked by how fast China can perform tests.

Do you have more info on this? I thought the test was a simple swab deal that a country like China could crank through like nobody's business. Like, at least for a few more orders of magnitude.

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by alamortsubite on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:57PM (#22196204)
Replying to myself, this article linked in a sibling comment discusses the issue: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/30/asia/chinese-health-care-...
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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by makomk on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:46PM (#22196082)
Yeah, China's healthcare system does not seem to be coping well with this: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/30/asia/chinese-health-care-...
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