The Importance of Social Distancing in the Prevention of Emergencies

The first 70 some odd cases that were reported out of China of the patients that died, I think the average age was 75 years old. So certainly, like with many respiratory viruses, it seems that people who are older or have other chronic illnesses are more likely to have severe disease and have worse outcome. What do you think in terms of prevention that can be done to prevent the spillover from these animal hosts to humans? The first thing is we need to invest more in global health security. And African China should be a concern to the US, to England, to, you know, every other country in the world.

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