Coronavirus not a global health crisis, WHO says; China reports 8 more deaths, restricts 18M people

The World Health Organization on Thursday declined to categorize the coronavirus sweeping across China as a global health emergency, saying there is no evidence of human-to-human infection outside China.

Chinese authorities Thursday moved to lock down at least three cities with a combined population of more than 18 million in an unprecedented effort to contain the virus during the busy Lunar New Year travel period. "The advice to the director-general provided by the emergency committee is that now is not the time," Houssin said."It's too early."

"This should not be taken as a sign that WHO does not think the situation is serious or that we’re not taking it seriously," Tedros said.In the USA, airports in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta and San Francisco stepped up health checks for passengers arriving from China. Fauci compared the outbreak with severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, a coronavirus that killed more than 600 people across mainland China and Hong Kong along with more than 100 other people around the world in 2002-2003. Fauci said a vaccine was developed for SARS but was not needed.

How about also discussing that it kills approx 2% Vs SARS at 10%. Yes. Serious concern. But keep in perspective and stop scaring everyone

The fear of having such a panic attack can be almost as bad as the panic itself…u can

Our govmt just allowed corporations to poison our water. Do we actually believe they would tell us of a pandemic?

Well technically it isn’t a Global Health Emergency.

Hm.. this tweet seems to suggest 25 out of 7,600,000,000 people should constitute as a global health emergency

Dummies

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