What it will take to stop the Wuhan coronavirus | Laurie Garrett writes for CNNOpinion
Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and policy analyst, and the author of "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance." The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinions at CNN.
On this date 17 years ago, I was covering the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus for several months as it spread across Asia, eventually reaching 37 countries, sickening 8,098 people and killing 774 of them. So, as I read the first reports of a cluster of animal-market related illnesses, with the first patient exhibiting symptoms of pneumonia as early as December 12, 2019, I had a chilling sense of déjà vu. By New Year's Eve, it was obvious something akin to SARS -- as it turns out, the Wuhan coronavirus is in the same family of viruses as SARS and MERS -- was unfolding in China.
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