Most people are accepting the news that the Chinese coronavirus is spreading across China and the world. They don't understand ground-level facts.
First of all, in every so-called epidemic, diagnoses of patients are eventually made by simple observation. The patient has typical flu symptoms? Fever, cough, fatigue, weakness, respiratory problems? He lives or works in an area where the epidemic has been reported? Boom, tell the patient he has the epidemic disease. Obviously, this is absurd. But it happens. And then you hear or read, "Today, three more people were found to be infected with the virus in (insert name of city)."
