How the coronavirus spreads, who's at risk, and what R0 means

What do we know about how it spreads between humans?

Transmission seems to be like an ordinary respiratory virus, it grows in your upper respiratory tract: in your nose, in your throat, and it is expels typically during coughing. One of the unknowns that we’re still trying to pin down is if it can be transmitted even in the absence of symptoms. With SARS and MERS, both viruses seemed to transmit only when people were actively symptomatic, so only when they were feeling ill and coughing and sneezing.

Some people will say that this could be transmitted before people get sick — which is more concerning from the standpoint of trying to keep it under control. But again, that’s something we don’t know for sure because we don’t have enough data to say if it can or cannot transmit before symptoms.People have given a lot of estimates of the R0 . Early estimates say, on average, one person can transmit to one other person or to three other people.

We know at least 170 deaths attributed to this virus. But we have more than 8,000 cases identified so far. We just don’t know very much about the fatality rate yet. T here’s so many unknowns and so many people are putting out that information suggesting this is the apocalypse. I wish we had all that data so we could alleviate some of these fears. But right now we’re in that grey area in the midst of this epidemic. We don’t know how it’s going to go. We don’t know how it’s going to end. So all we can do is try to let people know about our updates and our current findings and let them know when it gets concerning to us.Those in Wuhan.

Who's at risk? Based on the way our government treat CoronaOutbreak, EVERYONE.

I hope liberals are prone to dying from the Coronavirus, I'm not weak to political propaganda so I'll live!👍

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