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If you're scared just read the wiki on SARS - the previous coronavirus infection - to refresh your memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_SARS_o
by yread 7y ago
If you're scared just read the wiki on SARS - the previous coronavirus infection - to refresh your memory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_SARS_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_SARS_outbreak
It was a LOT worse that time - Chinese government basically covering up for the first 6 months, virus isolated only much later, sequenced months later.
- Arn_Thor 7y agoThe coverup is such an important part of why SARS turned out so bad. It mutated after the initial outbreak from a relatively benign virus to a much more deadly variety. (The longer the outbreak lasts and the more people are infected, the more likely such a mutation is) This time the Chinese government has been much more open (relatively), and the virus has been identified at a much earlier stage. I'd be pretty optimistic if it weren't for the Lunar New Year holiday, which could really screw up the efforts to contain the spread.