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I honestly don't see how this virus could possibly be contained. With almost 100K people infected - and likely more flying under the radar, it seems far more l

I honestly don't see how this virus could possibly be contained. With almost 100K people infected - and likely more flying under the radar, it seems far more likely that it will return yearly like the current flu until we get a vaccine. There are countries that simply aren't reporting infections, such as North Korea, which will be persistent jump-off points for new outbreaks on an ongoing basis.

ars 7y ago
> more likely that it will return yearly like the current flu The flu mutates yearly, I'm not aware of this new virus having that ability. In your scenario over time everyone will have encountered the virus and either are now immune or they die. At that point the spread will slow. It's not like this hasn't happened before: H1N1, Ebola, Zika. They all died down eventually.
- sliken 7y ago
  USA is having an unusual "double-barreled" flu this year where two different variants are common. One of which is A/H1N1 appeared as a second wave late in the flu season. Not sure what coronavirus will do, but clearly diseases like H1N1 can recur. What is somewhat more scary is that particularly lethal diseases often get less aggressive over time because the less aggressive variants transmit better and offer protection against the more aggressive variants. But since coronavirus can spread before symptoms appear, it's not clear that the same feedback loop will occur.
- xvilka 7y ago
  Ebola is not dead and there's ongoing[1] epidemic in Africa. It's still big and on the verge of declaring international emergency. It's just not airborne virus which limits the spread. [1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/02/1057291 https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/02/1057291