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02/14/2020 / By JD Heyes

Pentagon orders NORTHCOM to prepare for coronavirus “pandemic” as fears mount that China can’t stop it from spreading around the world

In the best indicator yet that the U.S. government is growing concerned that the Chinese government is incapable of containing the spread of the coronavirus beyond its borders, the Pentagon is ordering its various domestic commands to prepare for a “pandemic.” As reported by Military Times, U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) is currently executing plans to […]

02/12/2020 / By Ethan Huff

If not contained, the coronavirus could infect 60% of the world population, producing tens of millions of deaths

A top Hong Kong medical official has warned that, apart from full containment, the novel coronavirus could end up infecting upwards of 60 percent of the global population, leading to 45 million deaths. According to Professor Gabriel Leung, even a one percent death rate from the Wuhan coronavirus could lead to hundreds of thousands of […]

02/03/2020 / By Ethan Huff

WHO issues global emergency declaration due to “deeply concerning” cases of coronavirus

After a few weeks ago deciding not to declare a global public health emergency in response to coronavirus, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has now changed its mind, citing “deeply concerning” cases of the disease that have since emerged. Growing evidence suggests that coronavirus is now increasingly spreading from person to person outside of China, […]

02/02/2020 / By Ethan Huff

China is losing the battle against coronavirus, citizen journalist warns

An independent journalist recently traveled to Wuhan, China, to get a closer and more accurate look at what’s actually taking place on the ground, and what he discovered might shock you. Feeding into suspicions that the communist Chinese government isn’t being totally honest about the spread of coronavirus, this individual ultimately made a shocking discovery: Things […]

01/31/2020 / By Ethan Huff

W.H.O. just declared coronavirus a global emergency

After multiple earlier meetings that concluded with declarations of no-go, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has finally decided to dub the coronavirus outbreak a global emergency. Since there are now multiple reported cases of human-to-human coronavirus transmission outside of China, including in the United States, W.H.O. officials made the choice to issue a more dire […]

01/30/2020 / By JD Heyes

Catastrophe looms as experts fear China waited too long to quarantine Coronavirus: “This time I’m scared”

Fears of a deadly global pandemic of the kind not seen since Medieval times are quickly rising as the Coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, in the central region of the country, spreads. In fact, experts are already concerned that Chinese authorities — perhaps as a way to conceal the severity and scope of the […]

08/01/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

The next global pandemic could wipe out nearly a billion people, computer simulation finds

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security designed a frighteningly realistic scenario to see how prepared the government is for a global pandemic, and the exercise showed how woefully unprepared we are for such a situation. The researchers came up with a scenario that included a disease that could realistically exist and tested […]

02/03/2018 / By David Williams

Is this the global pandemic experts are warning about? They say it will be unstoppable because of the ease of travel

How prepared is the world to take on another pandemic? Not very, according to two of the world’s foremost experts on the subject. Speaking at the recently concluded World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Dr. Sylvie Briand, a specialist in infectious diseases from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Elhadj As Sy, the secretary general […]

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