Name: Why It's So Hard To Contain The Coronavirus And Other Outbreaks
Uploaded: 2020-03-16T02:50:42.000Z
Duration: 6 min 49 s
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look like during this new coronavirus outbreak.

in an attempt to stop the disease from spreading.

So, why is it so hard to contain these outbreaks?

that, so far, it has a low mortality rate.

The flu, for example, kills thousands of people every year.

As of February 2020, about 60 million people,

more than the entire population of Spain,

are being quarantined in their homes in China.

that isolating that many people together could backfire.

of Global Health Law at Georgetown University

and a director at the World Health Organization's Center

to be congregated in with 50 million people

in a hot zone of contagion, how you would feel?

If the public doesn't trust the solutions

For example, in the West African Ebola outbreak,

They didn't trust the foreign health workers

who were cordoning patients off from the rest of society,

especially since many were dying in quarantine.

between officials and the population at risk,

it's hard to contain an outbreak like the coronavirus.

We're less safe because we're globally interconnected

in a way that we've never ever been before.

Today, that number is more than 4 billion.

many in overcrowded areas, making it easier

for disease to spread from human to human.

means a virus that would have been geographically

contained in the past can now get from one side

of the globe to another in just a few hours.

In 2003, another coronavirus epidemic called SARS

and people will keep moving to urban areas.

What's more, viruses are always mutating into new strains.

We just need to get better at dealing with them.

we withdraw funding, we withdraw planning,

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Why It's So Hard To Contain The Coronavirus And Other Outbreaks

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