Coronavirus Update: A Doctor Answers 10 Critical Questions

A doctor discusses the latest updates about Coronavirus, citing the newest available studies to answer what the virus is, where it came from, what to expect in the coming days, and how individuals can protect themselves against infection. References from primary literature:

An explanation of where 2019-nCoV fits into the broader family tree of coronaviruses: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30251-8/fulltext

Clinical description of the first 41 cases in Wuhan: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext

Paper description model by which researchers determined the official case tally is a dramatic underestimate: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30260-9/fulltext

Description of case cluster infected from asymptomatic carrier in Germany: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468

EDIT: And the definitive debunking of that German case cluster: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/paper-non-symptomatic-patient-transmitting-coronavirus-wrong

One calculation of R0: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001316?query=featured_home

A primer on R0 from the CDC: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/1/17-1901_article

The estimate of the date of the Most Recent Common Ancestor for the coronavirus outbreak (i.e. mathematical model from sequencing different strains that determines when "patient zero" was infected): http://virological.org/t/clock-and-tmrca-based-on-27-genomes/347

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