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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by et34 on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:24PM (#22446503)
According to Wikipedia, Milan airport has 28m passengers per year, about 79k per day.

While northern Italy has highest concentration of cases outside Asia, the likelihood that any individual passenger is infected is very low and the likelihood that /one of them/ is infected, and had already traveled on, is very high.

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Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus by mk89 on Saturday February 29, 2020 @10:38AM (#22451057)
I think that if we truly want to keep people safe, we should stop making assumptions about how low the risk is, etc. All it takes is that you are in that low percent and that's it. I am not saying we should start panicking, however, leveraging modern tools (remote work) whenever possible is key to reduce the risk even further. It's just prevention.
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