it's generally believed that with the coronavirus the worst is yet to come
some predictions by global experts say the virus will likely end up infecting
most people in the world in that case it could become a seasonal illness like the
flu our Jonghyun reports public health experts have been trying to gauge how
bad the corona virus outbreak will get and whether it will become a full-blown
pandemic by calculating the pathogens reproduction rate in according to a
recent report by us-based investment bank JP Morgan Chase
South Korea's corona virus epidemic has not yet reached its peak taking the
speed of secondary infections in China into account the bank predicted that the
epidemic could reach its climax in Korea around March 20th and said there could
be as many as 10,000 confirmed cases the banks opposed a 3% of the 2.4 million
people living in tegu had been exposed to the virus tegu is where more than 80
percent of the total confirmed cases have occurred in korea however the South
Korean health authorities said it's too early to make such assumptions vice
health minister Kim dong-hyuk said at a briefing on Wednesday the more thorough
statistical analysis needs to be done on the spread of the virus meanwhile some
say the virus will ultimately become uncontainable in an article by the
Atlantic Harvard epidemiologist mark Lipsett said the corona virus will be a
global pandemic with 40 to 70 percent of the world's population likely to be
infected this year but it clarified that by saying many of those people will have
severe illnesses or even show symptoms at all which is already reportedly the
case for many people who have tested positive for the corona virus in that
way it could have similarities with influenza which is often
life-threatening to elderly people or those with chronic health conditions but
causes no symptoms at all in around 14% of cases
this is leading to an emerging consensus that the outbreak will eventually morph
into a new seasonal disease which the Atlantic says could one day turn the
cold and flu season into the cold and flu and kovat 19 season Taedong Yin
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