Direct quote from The head of WHO today in The Telegraph:
"For the moment, we are not witnessing the uncontained global spread of this virus and we are not witnessing large-scale severe disease or deaths," Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director general, said.
"Does this virus have pandemic potential? Absolutely it has. Are we there yet from our assessment? Not yet."
He added: "I have spoken consistently about the need for facts not fear, using the word pandemic now does not fit the facts but may certainly cause fear."
I try really hard to not make things personal on DDF and people posting on this thread seem very caring and like they are trying to help people but please guys don’t casually use very frightening, serious and untrue words (I wish Pandemic wasn’t even in the title of the thread). Please everyone just stay informed. Always best to protect yourself but also to wait and see what actually happens without falling prey to mass hysteria.
Here is a great article today out of Johns Hopkins directly comparing the Corona Virus to the flu, so people can see the differences and similarities:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-disease-2019-vs-the-flu