The author is a total cretin.

The Director of JOHNS HOPKINS school of Public Health has already Tweeted, under his own name, that we have to be prepared (nationally and internationally) for the prospect that this cannot be contained. He mentioned crash research on multiple fronts for vaccines, where "money is no object".

There are documented cases of transmission before symptoms; including a doctor who caught the virus from another MD who had been at Wuhan, merely by sitting next to him at a conference.

X-ray scans of a 10-year old boy, who was asymptomatic, but who had infected family members, showed "ground glass" appearance in the lungs.

The Lancet estimates transmissibility of 2.5 (the Spanish flu of 1918, had 1.8).

This. Is. Serious.

Paywall. Hits halfway down.

This is a big deal.

Up-to-Date Info About Chinavirus

Communist China (home of bird flu virus and now corona virus) finds way to fuck US markets as revenge for Trump having nerve to object to half-trillion-dollar annual trade imbalance and communists' currency manipulation

Dow set to plummet over 400 points this morning, maybe 500

FUCK COMMUNIST CHINA