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Julia Blues, Senior Health Correspondent of Vox.

When we spoke a week ago, we had hundreds of people sick on one cruise ship off the coast

of Japan, and potentially a bunch of sick people who had just been let off another cruise

ship in Cambodia.

You said it might have been the tipping point for what's now being called COVID-19, was

it?

Unfortunately, yes, so we've seen the battlefront against this virus go completely global in

the last week.

And if you remember, when we first started to talk about this coronavirus, it was really

heavily concentrated on China, and most of the countermeasures against that, the outbreak

there were focused on people coming from China or within China itself.

And what's different now is that the number of people being diagnosed with the virus outside

of China has been surging, and the rate of new infections in China seems to be going

down.

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