Hi, everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of 16 minutes where we cover what's going on, what's in the news from our vantage point in tech. In this episode, we're going to go deep on one topic, which is the coronavirus and is a very fast developing news cycle, so we're going to take a snapshot for where we are right now. And since the show is all about teasing apart what's hype, what's real, given all the buzz and headlines out there.

We're going to try to focus on what we know and what we don't know.

I've tried drawing wherever possible from primary sources, so CDC reports, world health organization reports, etc., instead of only looking at news headlines and derivative reports.

And our A6 and the expert, who I'll introduce in a moment,

we'll be bringing in

the vantage point coming from bioengineering and that aspect as well. So first of all, let me

quickly summarize the news. People are referring to this outbreak as the coronavirus, but it's actually

a new type of coronavirus because coronavirus is actually the general term for a more common

category of viruses. And this current strain is called 2019 NCOV for 2019 N-Novel coronavirus.

It's a rapidly developing situation, but as of January 26th, according to the

situation update on the World Health Organization website, there's a total of 2014 confirmed cases that

have been reported globally. Of these 98% were reported from China, including Hong Kong, Macau,

and Taipei. 324 of 1,975 cases have been reported as severely ill, with 56 debts reported to that date. Finally, 29 confirmed cases have been reported as severely ill, with 56 debts reported to that date.

Finally, 29 confirmed cases have been reported out of China in 10 countries, and in the table

that the World Health Organization provided, there's two cases listed in the U.S., but there's

more.

Again, this is from the Sixth Situation Report, which comes out every few days, and this one

came out on Sunday, January 26th.

That's a very high-level summary.

Now let me welcome Judy Savitskaya on the A6 and Z Bio Deal team.

First of all, really quickly, what is it?

What is the coronavirus?

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