This episode covers the latest updates since our <a href="https://a16z.com/2020/01/29/16mins-news-coronavirus-outbreak-2019ncov-r0-genomics-epidemics/" target="_blank">previous deep-dive</a> on the novel coronavirus outbreak. We cover the latest developments -- new name, new declarations, new numbers, new definitions -- as well as:<ol><li>practical implications for the U.S. healthcare system given how it works today, and where we might go in the future -- with a16z general partner <a href="https://a16z.com/author/julie-yoo/" target="_blank">Julie Yoo</a>, given our vantage point in tech; and</li><li>how the rt-PCR test works, and other updates about what the data do and don't tell us, and whether and what terms are useful or not -- with a16z bio partner Judy Savitskaya;</li></ol>...in conversation with Sonal Chokshi.<h3>Sources for this episode and/or other background links:</h3><ul><li>latest numbers: cases in the U.S. (<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html" target="_blank">CDC, as of February 17, 2020</a>); global cases (<a href="https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200214-sitrep-25-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=61dda7d_2" target="_blank">WHO situation report #25, February 14, 2020</a>); spike in diagnosing cases as reported in China (<a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3050354/coronavirus-hubei-province-reports-sharp-spike-new-confirmed" target="_blank">SCMP</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1227768644291170306" target="_blank">Scott Gottlieb</a>)</li><li>situation & policy statements/reports: CDC summary (<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html" target="_blank">as of February 14, 2020</a>); "Annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies", WHO (<a href="https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf" target="_blank">Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, 2019</a>)</li><li>on definitions (of pandemics, endemics), other terms, and various naming conventions: "Understanding pandemics: What they mean, what they don't mean, and what comes next with the coronavirus", Helen Branswell, StatNews (<a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/12/understanding-pandemics-what-they-mean-coronavirus/" target="_blank">February 12, 2020</a>); on disease occurrence and levels (<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section11.html" target="_blank">CDC</a>); "<a href="https://twitter.com/maiamajumder/status/1227847272823771136" target="_blank">misinfodemic</a>"; best practices on naming new human infectious diseases (<a href="https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/163636/WHO_HSE_FOS_15.1_eng.pdf;jsessionid=A50FD2F63D1F69F2DCEAE78F35801734?sequence=1" target="_blank">WHO</a>); qPCR (<a href="http://omicsomics.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-qpcr-explainer.html" target="_blank">Keith Robison</a>)</li></ul>image: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), CDC, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019-nCoV-CDC-23311.png" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a>

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