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Mission impossible? WHO director fights to prevent a pandemic without offending China
New outbreak comes as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus struggles to raise more money, thwart Ebola, and fight health misinformation -
Scientists are racing to model the next moves of a coronavirus that’s still hard to predict
The challenge of constructing models to understand and slow the growth of a frightening outbreak -
‘This beast is moving very fast.’ Will the new coronavirus be contained—or go pandemic?
Modelers are trying to forecast how the virus will move, but they need better data -
Study claiming new coronavirus can be transmitted by people without symptoms was flawed
A traveler to Germany from China who infected another person did feel ill, contradicting New England Journal of Medicine report -
Mining coronavirus genomes for clues to the outbreak’s origins
Theories abound about how the virus that’s now rampant in China made its way from bats (almost certainly) to humans -
Outbreak of virus from China declared global emergency
After rejecting the label twice, the World Health Organization now calls spread of new coronavirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern -
Can an anti-HIV combination or other existing drugs outwit the new coronavirus?
Chinese scientists are testing widely used antivirals in patients in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak -
Scientists are moving at record speed to create new coronavirus vaccines—but they may come too late
Even in the best-case scenario, developing, testing, and mass-producing a new vaccine takes many months -
Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally
Description of earliest cases suggests outbreak began elsewhere -
WHO says no need—yet—to declare spread of novel virus is an international emergency
Critics of decision see global threat from a coronavirus that emerged in China last month and has jumped to several countries -
WHO panel puts off decision on whether to sound alarm on rapid spread of new virus
Group of experts wants more data before calling coronavirus outbreak an international health emergency -
Arrival of new SARS-like virus in U.S. heightens concerns about global spread
Chinese officials confirm that the coronavirus spreads between people, making it harder to control -
China reports more than 200 infections with new coronavirus from Wuhan
Beijing and Shenzhen both have cases; South Korea becomes third affected country outside China -
World on alert for potential spread of new SARS-like virus found in China
Pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan appears to subside, but many questions remain about routes and extent of transmission -
Chinese researchers reveal draft genome of virus implicated in Wuhan pneumonia outbreak
Scientists praise decision to make date public; U.S. group sets out to produce live virus from the sequence
