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Readers: No need to panic amid virus outbreak

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-02-07 15:22

[By Luo Jie/China Daily]

Dostoevskydr (Expat in China)

Is the media overhyping the threat?

The coronavirus is novel and, for susceptible people, can be fatal. This combination is enough to drive the ever-hungry 24-hour news media and increasingly political responses. There is no doubt that public health concerns of a lethal contagion are one of the very few good reasons to allow -- even demand -- governments to restrict movement. But a disease with a fatality rate as low as the coronavirus does not really fit that description.

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