Amid confusion and even misinformation about the coronavirus, networks are stepping up their special coverage to the outbreak, often with the aim of sifting through facts and myths and what is know…
, networks are stepping up their special coverage to the outbreak, often with the aim of sifting through facts and myths and what is known and what is unknown.in which NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent travels to Hong Kong to meet with doctors who are treating patients, and to Singapore, where he talk to scientific researchers studying the origin of the virus. He also interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The experts that we’ve been speaking to, they’ve now come to a conclusion that it is something that spreads easily, and it does have a significant mortality rate. Somewhere between 2% and 4%, with 3.4% being the latest number from the WHO. But those numbers are somewhat confusing, because even at the 3.4% mortality rate, it changes depending on how old you are, and depending on what your pre-existing health conditions are like. That’s the average.
You mentioned the flu. Even with 100 years of familiarity with the disease, even with a reservoir of immunity built up in our systems because it comes back every year. Even with flu shots, it still kills 300,000 to 650,000 a year. This new virus has only killed 3,000 or so right now, but it has the potential to become very widespread, and none of us have any pre-existing immunity to it because it is a brand new pathogen. That’s why it’s a such concern.
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