Thursday, January 30, 2020

COVID-19 #02: WHO Declares (Required Part Is Higlighted)

The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus epidemic to be a public health emergency. The only other ones are for polio and Ebola.

Helen Branswell, who is providing some of the best coverage on this relays that WHO have just under 8K confirmed cases (a little below what SARS did in total). But they also have 12K suspected cases (Chinese sources also report that heavily hit hospitals ran out of test kits several days ago). China reported almost 2K positive test results yesterday alone.

The CDC has also reported the first human to human transmission in the U.S. There are now cases in 18 countries.

FWIW: If you’re not on Twitter, this is what Twitter is for.

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