I will definitely stop to read the papers, make a few slides to incorporate nCoV in my 2nd semester classes, and assign prospective work to an undergraduate. In that sense it is interfering with my research :-)
The 2019- nCoV is definitely drives all the public health specialists, epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists, microbiologist and others concerns. Since the outbreak announced, researchers initiated to investigate all the accessible available data to try formulate a real overview.
I would shed the light on the virulence and infectivity rates of this virus on which the preventive measures would be built.
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