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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by iCarrot on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:42AM (#22421435)
Or say the US. In 2009 pandemic, the influenza A H1N1 pdm-09 originated from Mexico, spread to the US, and then to the world.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by Retric on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:27AM (#22422664)
By comparison pdm-09 would have killed somewhere between 8 and 60 people with ~78,064 infections not 2,715 and counting. Thus reasonably getting a vastly lower response.
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