Coronavirus spreads quickly

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With the Coronavirus grabbing notoriety and so much social space, I thought that we should also devote some space to it, given that we are a health forum;

Infectious disease researchers at The University of Texas at Austin studying the novel coronavirus were able to identify how quickly the virus can spread, a factor that may help public health officials in their efforts at containment. They found that time between cases in a chain of transmission is less than a week and that more than 10% of patients are infected by somebody who has the virus but does not yet have symptoms.

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