Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/k7UKYmubi4c   Bloomberg News: As of 2/21/2020, 2:15 PM: Infected: 77,264 Deaths: 2250. Alternative name for CoVid-19: SARS-CoV-2.  South Asian Respiratory Syndrome due to a second coronavirus. %age critically ill from the disease in Wuhan has dropped from 38% to 18%.  Most patients have mild disease with only 20% progressing to severe disease. $  CoVid-19 a stronger virus than expected: transmissibility number of 3.28, higher than the WHO estimate of 1.4 to 2.5. Infected persons have more coronavirus in their noses than in their throats.     https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-nhc/new-coronavirus-is-preventable-and-treatable-china-health-official-idUSKBN20B0PV?il=0   https://www.mdlinx.com/infectious-disease/top-medical-news/article/2020/02/17/7608944/   https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30308-1/fulltext   https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/84988   #covid19 #coronavirus