The facts (as I’ve been able to pull from The World Health Organization) Name: A Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) or 19-nCov What is it? (https://www.who.int): COVID-19 is the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus similar genetically to SARS. SARS was more deadly but much less infectious than COVID-19. There have been no outbreaks of SARS anywhere in the world since 2003. WHO’s Director General” As you know, over the weekend (9 March 2020) we crossed 100,000 reported cases of COVID-19 in 100 countries. It’s certainly troubling that so many people and countries have been affected so quickly . Now that the virus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real. But it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled.” Exposure (https://www.who.int): It is not certain how long the virus that causes COVID-19 survives on surfaces, but it seems to behave like other coronaviruses. Studies suggest that co...