COVID-19 May Infect Half The World

Don’t panic, but this is getting pandemic

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Global petri dish, modified from CGI by Nobuyuki Hirakata

According to epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch, “40 to 70 percent of people around the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19”. He is not an outlier. More and more scientists are calling this coronavirus a pandemic, one of potentially massive scale.

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.