Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, worried — and tweeted — about the novel coronavirus from the beginning. But she says public health officials try to balance those fears with the reality that most small outbreaks in other countries typically don’t become global threats. “It’s almost like we’re doomed to repeat this cycle endlessly.”There were experts who immediately recognized the threat from the novel coronavirus. The outbreak escalated rapidly, leading the World Health Organization to declare a health emergency on Jan. 30 and the U.S. to announce a public health emergency the next day. Researchers had developed a vaccine against SARS, Fauci said, although the epidemic ended before researchers could test it widely in humans.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 21, 2020 22:07 UTC