Then why so small number of people get infected outside of China? I can hardly believe no case of infection could get unnoticed and not isolated successfully so far.
Because we won't no how many people are infected today for a couple of weeks, it has an up to 14 day incubation period (and appears to be contagious during the incubation period.)
Also the numbers are growing rapidly, especially in places with lots of contact with China.
> I can hardly believe no case of infection could get unnoticed and not isolated successfully so far.
A lot of negatives there but, yes, cases in the incubation period are likely to go unnoticed, since no symptoms exist.
Alcohol kills viruses!
Didn't you pay attention to the Andromeda Strain documentary?
I plan on staying home and drinking heavily.
Does it? I'm actually curious if alcohol-based hand sanitizers should be used as an element in 2019-nCoV infection prevention.
New infected after that point will be from person to person contact with infected travelers prior to the quarantine. That's when we'll find out how many people caught the virus that we don't know about, and therefore how many have been spreading it without knowing.
"Two people who returned from China were hospitalized in Lviv with signs of ARD (acute respiratory disease)" (1)
"Last week, nearly 13,000 people became ill in the Lviv region with influenza and SARS" (2)
Primarily among kids and young adults, in the article they say the weather is especially conducive to the spread of the flu right now; I wouldn't automatically link it to the virus in China...
1: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&... 2: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
P.S. https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80...
https://wz.lviv.ua/news/404392-likarni-ternopolia-perepovnen...
AFAIK you are going to have them by tomorrow (5th of Feb). WHO cares (pun intended).