43 people are being monitored after contact with the single U.S. patient with Wuhan coronavirus, a ratio that could turn scary
Date: Jan 24 2020
- Forty-three people are being medically monitored after contact with the sole US sufferer of the Wuhan coronavirus.
- They appear to be members of the public who accidentally ended up close to him.
- This level of cautious monitoring is plausible when the number of known existing cases of the virus is on an extremely small scale, as it now is in the US.
- The opposite extreme, in Wuhan, China, shows how the spread of a virus quickly erodes the ability to contain it, creating a vicious cycle.
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Medical officials in the US are monitoring 43 individuals after they had contact with the single confirmed US sufferer of the Wuhan coronavirus.
