nuzzo: it is somewhat too early.ne of the things i look at is what the severity is more so than the transmissibility. it is important for people to realize although the -- although this is a new virus, these viruses are circulating all the time around the globe. what is potentially arming -- potentially alarming is the possibility this could be more severe. .eople are looking to sars it is estimated that 10% of the known cases died. i am somewhat reassured by the report of debts that they are largely occurring among people we know to be at risk of death from infection. people who are elderly and otherwise medically impaired and have other underlying medical conditions that could make them more likely to suffer a severe outcome from a respiratory infection. if those data change and we start seeing more young previously healthy individuals develop severe illness and i, that would be very worrisome. nuzzo, seniorfer scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security. from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: int

jennifer not —— nuzzo has worked us through what she knows about the virus.atory virus, so it's spread by respiratory symptoms, people coughing and putting virus into the air. but what we're still trying to understand is how quickly is it spreading between people? so we don't know — for example, if i had a virus and i coughed on someone, would that be enough to transmit the virus, and so on. right, exactly, and if you were sick and you are going about your day, how many people you would you make sick? and how do we find out that information? well, unfortunately it is slow and steady work that requires trying to understand cases, identifying their contacts and trying to piece together who may have gotten sick from whom. to some extent we are also looking at the genetic analysis of the virus, which can potentially link cases together. but right now, i think there are still a lot of questions. as of a week ago, there were even still questions about whether or not people could just transmit it to each other in a sustained fashion. i think now we're starting to le

professorjennifer nuzzo is an epidemiologist atjohns hopkins university.me. we are being told that this is a virus similar perhaps true sales but is not at least out as deadly as a seasonal flu. is that correct? not at least out as deadly as a seasonalflu. is that correct? is that fair? this virus seems to have jumped from animals to humans, one of the things we're looking now is to assess whether there is virus is capable of being transported between humans. so in other words if it can survive the initial contact between humans? we know they have become an ——we know humans have become infected, some people had become infected, some people had become infected ) cases which is not good news but one of the things we are trying to see is whether the virus can continue to spread between people like seasonal influenza does. what is your thinking at the moment and how worried are you? early to tell. i haven't seen any data that suggests it can do that so that is good news but obviously this is an emergency situation at united collected every day, we continue to

doctorjennifer nuzzo.urvivors and bereaved family members had threatened to boycott the enquiry if she remained on the panel. iain watson expand that many of the victims' families wa nt that many of the victims' families want the second stage of the enquiry to be handled sensitively because they see it as a key opportunity to uncover the truth. there's going to bea uncover the truth. there's going to be a new phase of an enquiry which gets under way next week, and as you say, this threat of boycotting that stage of the enquiry by the families u nless stage of the enquiry by the families unless she resigned. she was appointed by boris johnson unless she resigned. she was appointed by borisjohnson in december, but the guardian newspaper then subsequently revealed that when she was president of the women's engineering society, that society had accepted more than £70,000 from the charitable arm of the american company that made the ground fell fighting. she has written to the prime minister today and she said,

earlier i spoke to professor jennifer nuzzo, an epidemiologist atjohns hopkins university, and asked from animals to humans. one of the things we‘re looking now is to assess whether there is virus is capable of being transported between humans. so, in other words, if it can survive the initial contact between humans. we know humans have become infected. some people have become infected. there are cases, which is not good news, but one of the things we are trying to see is whether the virus can continue to spread between people like seasonal influenza does. what is your thinking at the moment and how worried are you? it is too early to tell. i haven‘t seen any data that suggests it can do that, so that is good news. but obviously this is an emergency situation. information is collected every day. we continue to watch and learn, to make sure this isn‘t more serious than it appears to be so far. what you think of the measures that china and other countries are taking, and what measures do you think they should be taking? so i think china should be commended for how aggressively it‘s goi

drjennifer nuzzo is an expert in infectious diseases at thejohns hopkin5 center for health security.available information, including what information the who may have, and provided to them from china that hasn't been publicly announced. i think key to this convening is really to have external 5et5 of experts 5crutinising all the available data and making some expert definitive statement as to what level of public health risk the situation warrants. and how does this virus compare with similar viruses that we've encountered in the past? so we don't fully know. obviously this is sort of the third coronavirus that has sparked global tension — the first being sars in 2003, the second one being mers, just a few years after that. it's hard to tell to what extent this virus compares to those two. sars was a global epidemic where multiple countries where it infected, and there were 8,000 people in total infected and about 800 deaths. obviously that would be a very worrisome situation. by comparison, mers has been a much more contained situation with fewer case numbers because of lack of tran