Health officials expect coronavirus to spread worldwide
Government-imposed quarantines, a shutdown of outbound flights and trains, and locked-down cities in China slowed down the new coronavirus but didn’t stop its surge across the world, and the time has come for the global community to brace for a worldwide disease spread, said a Harvard epidemiologist. “The infectious-disease epidemiology community and policymakers have come to the conclusion that it’s very likely that this virus is going to continue spreading throughout the world over time,” said Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Things have really shifted a little bit from trying to stop its spread in China to now saying, ‘What can we, as a global community, as individual nations, and even as individual hospitals, do to prepare for what seems more and more potentially inevitable that we will start seeing cases locally throughout the world?’” Mina participated in a Facebook Live event on...