Coronavirus: Paradoxes of a potential pandemic

 coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV, first detected in December in patients that visited a seafood market in Wuhan, China, alarms US and global medical, political and travel authorities. “This situation is very fluid,” Dr. Ryan Oyer, infectious disease specialist at Kaiser Permanente in Denver, told the IJN Monday, Feb. 3. “At this stage it’s very unclear exactly whether coronavirus will turn into a pandemic, although most epidemiology experts think it will. “But the threat is low in the US.” In China — where 2019-nCoV attacks like a starving tiger —the danger is very real. Coronavirus jumped from 213 deaths and 10,000 cases in 24 countries on Jan. 31, to over 24,000 infected and 490 deaths by Feb. 5. Four deaths have occurred outside of China. Last Friday, […]