Going to thread daily one-year old stories, see how long I last.
BBC News front page on 12 Jan offering:
13 Jan, BBC Brasil:
14 Jan, 'pneumonia':
15 Jan 2020:
16 Jan 2020:
17 Jan 2020, Bloomberg:
18 Jan 2020, 'four' more cases:
19 Jan 2020: a mathematical model
20 Jan 2020: FT on future pandemics
21 Jan 2020: 'Vigilance, preparedness, speed, transparency and global coordination are now crucial'
22 Jan 2020: 'China’s Wuhan Shutdown'
23 Jan 2020: 'snakes probably aren’t spreading [Covid-19]'
24 Jan 2020: 'The virus is influenza, and it poses a far greater threat to Americans than the coronavirus from China'
25 Jan 2020: 'An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings'
26 Jan 2020: 'Without symptoms, a person may not know they have the infection, but still be able to spread it.'
27 Jan 2020: 'We’re working on a plan now so that priority states get these kits as soon as possible.'
28 Jan 2020: 'a Bavarian man contracted the virus from a colleague'
29 Jan 2020: 'The Washington Times suggests a government-run lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, could have been researching military applications for the coronavirus and may have been the source of the outbreak'
30 Jan 2020: HERE WE GO
'it is still possible to interrupt virus spread'
31 Jan 2120: And the very next day...
'Would the virus survive on a tissue?'
1 Feb 2020: 'The masks - branded worthless by doctors - have been flying out of the door at Partick Superstore'
2 Feb 2020: 'Vaccine Could Take Year or More, Glaxo Says... EU Doesn’t See Need for Broad Travel Restrictions'
3 Feb 2020: 'The 2019-novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a major source of disaster in the 21th century'
4 Feb 2020: 'What will a world with endemic 2019-nCoV — circulating permanently in the human population — be like?'
5 Feb 2020: 'China was confident and capable of winning the war against the virus'
6 Feb 2020: '“Could it be that the change of seasons has an impact on the virus? Lord knows, we hope so”'
7 Feb 2020: 'he had decided to speak to manufacturers of [PPE] to ensure that medical staff in particular received surgical masks'
8 Feb 2020: 'passengers will be taken to a conference centre in Milton Keynes for a 14-day quarantine'
9 Feb 2020: 'the world’s biggest iPhone assembler and even state-owned energy companies are using their assembly lines to pump out more face masks and other medical supplies'
10 Feb 2020: 'So why is the public so panicked over this outbreak?'
11 Feb 2020: WE HAVE A NAME
'...a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people, and which is also pronounceable and related to the disease'
12 Feb 2020: 'a failure to act on the warnings of those who studied it means we missed an opportunity to protect human health'
13 Feb 2020: 'If the virus becomes established in the UK then we may need to move to a different phase of the response which focuses less on containment – but we are a long way off that.'
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