They seem to have learnt from SARS where they tried to not frighten the horses & had lax border controls. Looks like this time the quarantine procedures have been implemented early. They’ve isolated about 13 cities so far. Also, bad as it is, is it potentially as bad as SARS?
Nobody is really sure right now how bad this particular strain is because if it still being early/Chinese media lockdowns.
Right now it's on track to be comparable to SARS, but the fear is it might become more like MERS.
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