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Science Vs

Coronavirus Outbreak: How Scared Should You Be?

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A new virus showed up in China late last year, and it’s making its way to other countries too. So what do scientists know about the virus so far? And how worried should we be? To find out we talk to infectious disease researchers Dr. Kristian Andersen and Dr. Catharine Paules, physician Dr. Hui, and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci. We did an episode on a *fictional* pandemic, which you can find here: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/49hok3/pandemic  Check out the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/2S7JwXN Selected references: The WHO and the CDC are maintaining information centers that update regularly: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 and https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/index.html  Scientific journals The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine have taken down the paywall for papers related to the outbreak: https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus and https://www.nejm.org/coronavirus  This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman, Meryl Horn, Rose Rimler and Michelle Dang. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell and Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Lexi Krupp. Mix and sound design by Sam Bair. Music written by Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, and Bobby Lord. A big thanks to Dr. Paul Delamater, Dr. Vittoria Colizza, and Shan Li. Recording assistance from Margot Wohl and Randy Scott Carroll. Translation by Yuan Xue, John Deng, and Chiung H Chuang. And special thanks to Bobby Lord, the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Wendy Succomman and you're listening to Science Vs from Gimlet.

1:09.0

We are on a break. We were on a break, working on new episodes for our next season. That was

1:15.8

until we started hearing about this new virus infecting people in China, with the number

1:20.6

of cases going up and up. There are nearly 300 confirmed cases. 830 confirmed cases now

1:28.8

heading towards 3,000. More than 4,500 have been infected. China has gone into full-blown

1:35.0

crisis mode, building new hospitals, closing schools and shutting down transport between

1:39.6

cities, effectively putting millions of people under lockdown. The country has quarantined

1:46.4

multiple cities, the streets are deserted, shops are shut, it is cut off from the rest

1:51.6

of the world. But still, there are cases showing up around the world.

1:55.7

Cases confirmed in Japan, South Korea and Thailand in Europe, Australia to the United States.

2:01.2

Right now though, the vast majority of infected people are in China. As of January 30th,

2:07.2

that's today, Chinese officials have reported almost 10,000 confirmed cases and more than

2:13.2

200 people have died. The head of the world health organization has just raised the alert

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