Saturday, February 08, 2020

Day 8: Death Toll Exceeds SARS

The death toll from novel coronavirus exceeded that of SARS (774) earlier today and as of this typing stands at 813. Also, a Chinese-American man died in Wuhan earlier this week but the news only broke today. The case count is at 37,525.

Aboard the Germ Boat, three new cases have been reported in the Japanese press but haven't been added to the official Others numbers yet. Li Wenliang's death yesterday continues to spark controversy.

The rumored unusual susceptibility of East Asian males to Wuhan coronavirus (which seems to be what the cool kids are calling it) and SARS actually does have a scientific explanation, the ACE2 virus receptor.

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