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Scientists race to answer key questions about spread of coronavirus

Experts around the world are racing to answer five key questions that will determine just how deadly and devastating coronavirus will be.


Jamie Seidel
news.com.au
February 7, 20201:52am

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There are five questions that experts are racing to answer before coronavirus takes over. Picture: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Source:Getty Images

Scientists and medical experts are frantically working to determine the answer to five key questions in relation to the deadly coronavirus spreading across China and around the world.

Incubation, communication, the rate of infection, mutation and damage caused are essential to limit casualties and prevent the virus spreading.

However more than a month into the outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, medical authorities still don’t have more than a basic understanding of the disease.

And uncertainty feeds fear.

But the broad boundaries of the virus’ behaviour are being mapped and the level of understanding is slowly growing.

Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanayake of the Australian National University (ANU) Medical School is an infectious disease specialist. He spoke with news.com.au to help define just how much is known about 2019-nCoV’s unknowns, and what they mean.

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A child is seen wearing a facemask, as public fear over China's Wuhan Coronavirus grows, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines. Picture: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images Source:Getty Images



Researchers are racing to answer five questions. These will help quantify the coronavirus’ actual threat and, therefore, the necessary means of containment, prevention and treatment.

• How long does it take to incubate?

• What means of communication does it employ to infect new hosts?

• What is its rate of infection, and how quickly can it spread?

• What damage does the virus do to its hosts?
• And what is its rate of mutation, with its associated ability to resist treatment, acquired immunity – and change the answer to every question asked above?

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