some predictions by global experts say the virus will likely end up infecting

most people in the world in that case it could become a seasonal illness like the

flu our Jonghyun reports public health experts have been trying to gauge how

bad the corona virus outbreak will get and whether it will become a full-blown

pandemic by calculating the pathogens reproduction rate in according to a

recent report by us-based investment bank JP Morgan Chase

South Korea's corona virus epidemic has not yet reached its peak taking the

speed of secondary infections in China into account the bank predicted that the

epidemic could reach its climax in Korea around March 20th and said there could

be as many as 10,000 confirmed cases the banks opposed a 3% of the 2.4 million

people living in tegu had been exposed to the virus tegu is where more than 80

percent of the total confirmed cases have occurred in korea however the South

Korean health authorities said it's too early to make such assumptions vice

health minister Kim dong-hyuk said at a briefing on Wednesday the more thorough

statistical analysis needs to be done on the spread of the virus meanwhile some

say the virus will ultimately become uncontainable in an article by the

Atlantic Harvard epidemiologist mark Lipsett said the corona virus will be a

global pandemic with 40 to 70 percent of the world's population likely to be

infected this year but it clarified that by saying many of those people will have

severe illnesses or even show symptoms at all which is already reportedly the

case for many people who have tested positive for the corona virus in that

way it could have similarities with influenza which is often

life-threatening to elderly people or those with chronic health conditions but

causes no symptoms at all in around 14% of cases

this is leading to an emerging consensus that the outbreak will eventually morph

into a new seasonal disease which the Atlantic says could one day turn the

cold and flu season into the cold and flu and kovat 19 season Taedong Yin

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