Coronavirus: ten reasons not to panic

Microbiology expert considers the causes for optimism

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Ignacio Lopez-Goni, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Navarra, Spain, looks at the reasons to be optimistic over coronavirus in an article originally written for The Conversation.

Regardless of whether we classify the new coronavirus as a pandemic, it is a serious issue. In less than two months, it has spread over several continents. Pandemic means sustained and continuous transmission of the disease, simultaneously in more than three different geographical regions. Pandemic does not refer to the lethality of a virus but to its transmissibility and geographical extension.

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