Corona Virus

Corona Virus

• An intensive-care expert has demonstrated just how infectious the new coronavirus is, as people are urged to self-isolate across the world. 
• A person with the common flu will on average pass it to 1.3 people, Professor Hugh Montgomery told Channel 4's "Dispatches" on Sunday. If there are 10 cycles of that interaction, there will be 14 cases of the flu, he calculated.
• But the coronavirus is about three times as infectious as the flu, he said. This estimate is a little higher than that of the World Health Organization, which says the average person infected with the coronavirus contaminates between 2 and 2.5 people. 
• So if one person with the coronavirus passes it onto three people, and those three people pass onto three more people for ten cycles, there will be 59,000 infections, he calculated.
• "If you are irresponsible enough to think that you don't mind if you get the flu, remember it's not about you, it's about everybody else," Montgomery said.