The Coronavirus Goes Global

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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What began as a public health crisis in China is well on the way to becoming a pandemic. And while there is a lot of news about the coronavirus, there is also a lack of understanding about the severity of the threat. As officials warn of a potential outbreak in the U.S., we ask: How bad could the coronavirus get? Guest: Donald G. McNeil Jr., a science and health reporter for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: President Trump sought to reassure the country that the U.S. government was controlling the spread of the coronavirus after his administration weathered days of criticism.Here are the latest updates on the illness’s sweep around the world, with cases in at least 44 countries.What can you do to protect yourself and your family from the virus?

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0:00.0	Across the world, there are rising concerns of a potential coronavirus pandemic after a major
0:06.2	jump in cases outside of China.
0:10.0	From the New York Times, unlike Obawaro, this is the daily.
0:15.0	30 countries and territories, nearly 80,000 cases today.
0:20.1	South Korea, which is now 750 cases or more.
0:23.7	And in Iran, whether it be close to 100 cases, the death toll is 15.
0:29.3	It began as a public health crisis in China is well on its way to becoming a pandemic.
0:36.3	It's still unclear how the virus made it into Italy.
0:39.3	Four new cases are here on French territory.
0:42.6	Japan is in Afghanistan, Austria, Switzerland and Croatia, all confirming their first cases.
0:49.3	Now, the CDC in the last hour warning Americans to prepare for the possibility of an outbreak.
0:55.1	As officials warn of a coming outbreak in the US.
0:58.6	CDC's Dr. Nancy Misonye said it's not a question of if the novel coronavirus will spread through
1:03.6	the United States, but when?
1:05.6	My colleague, Donald G. McMill Jr. on how bad the coronavirus might get.
1:12.6	Out of the way could go any direction.
1:14.7	I do think that we are heading towards a pandemic.
1:20.9	It's Thursday, February 27.
1:28.9	Donald, I have a sense that you have covered a lot of epidemics in your career.
1:32.9	And if this isn't too strange a question, how many epidemics have you covered?
1:37.9	SARS, MERS, bird flu, 2009 swine flu, Zika, Dengue and Chicken Goonia didn't really become
1:48.9	epidemics.
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