re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

Death toll passes 2,000

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BREAKING: Epicenter of coronavirus outbreak reports 1,693 new cases and 132 new deaths

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South Korea reported 15 new cases just now. In one a woman infected 10 people at her place of worship and another at hospital.

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Do you think other countries have what it takes to implement the quarantines necessary to control this thing? China can get away with a lot implementing their communism

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No Western/democratic country will be able to enforce the mass isolation that China has implemented. I've been wrong before but I just don't see it.

Hong Kong is reporting a 2nd death.

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Hong Kong is reporting a 2nd death.

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A second person, a 70-year-old man, has died in Hong Kong from the infection, a spokeswoman at the Princess Margaret Hospital told CNBC. When asked for more information about the patient, the spokeswoman said further details would be shared at an afternoon press conference. This would mark the sixth fatality outside the Chinese mainland, where the death toll has surpassed 2,000

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Still only impacting a certain group outside of mainland... Waiting for the shoe to drop.

What kinds of actions would a university or other place where there are a lot of people around take if a student/employee tested positive for this?

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how exactly will this thing subside?

How did previous pandemics like plague, spanish flu, etc subside?

There has to be something, either manmade or natural, that can slow this thing down.

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Several things can happen, some natural and some not.

Kind of obviously I think, as things spread and reality hits, people become more aware and cautious about things. Just simple things like not getting too close to people and washing hands can have a huge impact.

There are several natural ways pandemics slow down, as well. UV light kills a lot of stuff, so they tend to slow in the summer. Also, since mutations are random, the more deadly forms generally don't tend to stick around as long as the less deadly ones. That's why the common cold is so common - it's not all that deadly. Obviously a virus could be extremely deadly but also take a long time to kill, and that would be worst-case scenario. But thankfully when something is that deadly it usually doesn't take its sweet time in killing.

South Korea, Japan and Singapore will be the real test on what this will be in the West. It will take another month to know what kind of fatalities we will see from the current crop of cases. If it spreads and produces fatalities anything like China it will be a real global concern. Hopefully that isn’t the case.

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Coronavirus so far today:
- 20 new cases in South Korea (51 total)
- 10 new cases in Japan (84 total)
- 79 new cases on Diamond Princess (621 total)
- 3 new cases in Singapore (84 total)
- First 2 presumptive cases in Iran
- 1 new case in Hong Kong (63 total)

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HK up to 65 now and they have identified 31 new potential cases.

ETA: Amazingly, 8 Chinese provinces reported no new cases, just in time to get people back to work.

They are just residents of Shelby Co that travelled to China.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Twenty people in Shelby County are being monitored by the health department in the fight against coronavirus. While there are no confirmed cases of the illness in Tennessee, Mississippi or Arkansas, health officials are upping their prevention protocols to keep the virus from reaching the Mid-South.

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