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drewprops
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
 
2020-01-25, 10:52

Sooooo "coronavirus" describes a group of viruses which can affect birds and mammals. There's an epidemiologist who has been laying out an argument about the virulence of the novel coronavirus coming from Wuhan in China - he compares it to the Spanish influenza pandemic from 100 years ago, and suggests it's a much more dangerous outbreak, notably because it's asymptomatic - impossible to spot infected/carriers.

If it's bad enough they'll name this thing at some point. That's probably not very scientific, but it'll happen.



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