At Harvard forum, experts warn of ‘most daunting virus’ in 50 years – STAT

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. For a veteran epidemiologist, an authority on homeland security, and a global health reporter, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus⁴ is the type of emergency they had long anticipated. But now that it is here, the three experts said Friday, they still couldn t help but feel the monumentality of what they were watching unfold.

It s the most daunting virus that we ve contended with in half a century or more, Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said at a panel discussion⁵ Friday at Harvard s Kennedy School of Government.

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