https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
There are two "good things" about this tracking graph at the lower right. There is a slight decline in the rate of new cases in China... TBD if this is significant yet. The other bit is the places outside of China growth where the growth rate is essentially flat.
The bad news is the rumor that the cases in China may be vastly under reported due to a lack of test kits.
But there is enough data so far to warrant a declaration of a pandemic. WHO and the CDC should speed the discovery of a vaccine or treatment (again, rumor from Vietnam is that a combination of Tamiflu and another anti-virus drug show promise is helping the recovery of at-risk individuals, not a cure, but possible life saving treatment).
I am watching the infection cases in my area of the US because I would be considered at-risk (older person with pre-existing health risks). When there are more than something like 10 cases in my neck of the woods... I will be curtailing all interactions with other people... a sort of self imposed isolation, with frequent washing of hands and wearing a mask to prevent my hands from touching my nose or mouth (that said, the effectiveness of such measures is more or less unknown as even the transmission vector is still speculative).
Oddly enough, my company has already started encouraging people to work from home for the duration... and it is now mandatory for our division in China.
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