http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/top-stories-coronavirus-next-phase-glowing-newts-and-japan-s-cruise-ship-fiasco

The coronavirus seems unstoppable. What should the world do now?

The global march of COVID-19 is beginning to look unstoppable. In just the past week, a countrywide outbreak surfaced in Iran, spawning additional cases in Iraq, Oman, and Bahrain. Italy put 10 towns in the north on lockdown after the virus rapidly spread there. And more than a dozen other countries have reported their first cases. The World Health Organization still contends that the burgeoning outbreak does not merit being called a pandemic, but many scientists say that regardless of what it’s called, the window for containment is now almost certainly shut.