SARS-CoV-2, HCOV-19, nCoV-19... Whatever you want to call this coronavirus, it is making a splash in countries all over the globe: big outbreaks in Italy, South Korea, and Iran, along with growing numbers of infected people (largely untested) in the USA. In this episode, Sean and Nathan discuss the US CDC's response to the coronavirus and dive a little into a paper about there being two potential 'strains' of this virus already.

References:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.25.20027953v2

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30419-0/fulltext

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30462-1/fulltext

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30557-2/fulltext

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30551-1/fulltext

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-have-been-tested-coronavirus/607597/