“We really need to put this into context globally,” says Jason Brady, CEO of Thornburg Investment Management, who cites how the common flu kills more people in the United States annually alone compared to the current novel coronavirus.
Richard Pebody, team lead for high threat pathogens at the WHO, discusses the organization’s labeling of the China coronavirus as a global health emergency.
Genome sequencing studies suggest that the novel coronavirus came from a single source in Wuhan around October to November 2019, says Paul Tambyah from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.