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Medical advances may shorten COVID-19 duration

Friday, February 28, 2020

Significance

COVID-19 is accelerating towards a pandemic, but scientific promptness and efficient communication between countries is acting as a brake. This is the third recorded animal-to-human transmission of a coronavirus, after SARS (2002) and MERS (2012).

Impacts

  • Restrictions on the Chinese workforce and expenditure on the disease will be detrimental to the economy, at least in the short term.
  • Open and accessible clinical and scientific data sharing will become pivotal towards global preparedness.
  • Mass and social media will need a more coordinated strategy to curb the spread of misinformation among the public and avoid creating panic.

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