These Experts Are Calling The Covid-19 Coronavirus The ‘Most Daunting Virus’ In Half A Century

STAT News: At Harvard forum, three who know warn of ‘most daunting virus’ in half a century

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For a veteran epidemiologist, an authority on homeland security, and a global health reporter, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus is the type of emergency they had long anticipated. But now that it is here, the three experts said Friday, they still couldn’t help but feel the monumentality of what they were watching unfold.

“It’s the most daunting virus that we’ve contended with in half a century or more,” Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said at a panel discussion Friday at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Helen Branswell, STAT’s infectious diseases and public health reporter, has covered emerging pathogens since the 2003 SARS outbreak.

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WNU Editor: A very sobering discussion.

Update: Here is another interesting on why new diseases keep appearing in China (video below).

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