A collection of key developments in the fight against the Wuhan coronavirus (nCoV-2019, now known as COVID-19), posted throughout the week for those who just want the signal and not the noise. If there’s something you think we should include, sound off in the comments thread attached to the post. Visit our Wuhan coronavirus status
A collection of key developments in the fight against the Wuhan coronavirus (nCoV-2019), posted throughout the week for those who just want the signal and not the noise. If there’s something you think we should include, sound off in the comments thread attached to the post. Visit our Wuhan coronavirus status page and learn how
A Twitter thread from Jeremy Konyndyk, Former US Foreign Disaster Assistance chief, is yet another data point in a growing pile of indicators that we may really not be at all ready to handle an nCoV-2019 outbreak here in the US, especially if it strikes during an already busy flu season. Had a very concerning
With 2019-nCoV still uncontrolled across China, and global control challenged by incidents on cruise ships, in alpine ski towns, in apartment blocks, and elsewhere, conversations about the coronavirus epidemic always circle back to trying to figure out just how deadly it really is. The disease’s case fatality rate (CFR) — the percentage of 2019-nCoV infections
Our ongoing tracking of the latest case numbers of 2019-nCoV in Hubei, elsewhere in China, and around the world has revealed that the growth rate of confirmed cases is dropping, and in many areas appears to have dropped below the unconstrained growth rate in recent days. While these latest developments do not mean we can
With nine days now having passed since the initial Wuhan lockdown went into full effect, we’ve arrived at the earliest date that any positive results from that drastic measure could be reflected in the case numbers. Any changes in the actual growth rate of the epidemic due to quarantines, travel restrictions, and the like will
A group of bioinformaticians at two prestigious universities in Delhi, India, published a preprint scientific manuscript on the bioRxiv preprint server Friday has led many to speculate wildly that 2019-nCoV may have been deliberately engineered using HIV protein sequences. The paper, entitled “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120
I’m a Harvard Business Review China journalist based in Beijing, and I grew up in this city. In 2003, I survived the outbreak of SARS while preparing for my college-entrance examination. Many people’s lives were permanently changed because of SARS, including my own. I certainly didn’t expect that, 17 years later, I would witness another
We’ve had our eye on a brand new, previously-unknown-to-medicine respiratory virus since we put it in our news roundup on Monday. The situation has evolved quite a bit since then, so here are the latest developments: The disease, a coronavirus that is spread through the air, is being called Wuhan Pneumonia, after the area of
