What does the Chinese study about the Coronavirus tell us about the disease?
The massive study by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) provides valuable insights
Covid-19 or the Coronavirus has created one of the biggest pandemic scares in recent history. The disease is already causing widespread problems — financial markets meltdown, supply chain disruptions, travel restrictions, schools & business closures to name a few. The peculiar nature of the disease and the lack of understanding of how it spreads is causing the hysteria.
A California man who was diagnosed with the virus earlier had no travel history or known interaction with another person having the disease. The global authorities are scrambling to find the cure. The bigger question is if the world is well equipped to deal with a pandemic? With 62 countries reporting confirmed cases now, time is not on their side. At the time of writing, there were 83,867 cases globally, 36,686 recoveries and 2,867 deaths.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) has now published a massive study of more than 44,000 confirmed COVID-19 patients which could go a long way in addressing the information gap of the disease — a sentiment echoed by the WHO authorities recently.
