talked to patrick tang running battles a broken down for a 2nd consecutive day in iraq as security forces fired tear gas and live bullets to try to clear anti-government protesters a crackdown began on saturday shortly after the influential cleric shia cleric. withdrew his support for the demonstrations in iran calmed the speed of the protests where tear gassed blood from it's been fired into the crowd. this is colonial square in central baghdad just over there you can save a tear gas being fired by anti-riot police into the crowds there are hundreds of people here well they're doing is they're coming in from takrit square just behind me and they're moving towards where they gathering in their hundreds to make that point now while the iraqi security forces are trying to. clear everybody chromed base area push them towards south korea square where they're trying to contain them while they try to do is open up all of the roads and the bridges leading in to try and i allow traffic back in to central baghdad but the. absolutely determined to make their point they say it's been months these pr

coughing and who are having problems with breathing should immediately look for medical care talk to patrick tang is the division chief of pathology sciences that sidra medicine in kata he explains how the outbreak compares to that of the sars outbreak 17 years ago. we know so far about this novel coronavirus in china it's it's probably less lethal than sars so of the people that get infected with this virus 3 percent of them die whereas from saw it during sars about 10 percent of the people that got infected died from the infection in terms of infective mis the the new virus is as infectious as sars if not more infectious and sars at least based on what we know right now so after sars scientists went out to find out what was the source of sars and from all the studies done in china they they found that these coronaviruses live in bats so there are probably hundreds if not more different variants of sars viruses kroner viruses that live in bats and in any number of them might have mutations that allow them to cause infections in people everyone around the world both in china as well as the rest o

to 6 joining us on saddest dr patrick tang a division chief of pathology scientists at center of medicine here and qatar joining us right now also global health emergency what are the the practical implications of those words. so i think the w.h.o. has made a decision to declare this a public health emergency of international concern but the thing that we have to recognize is that during this whole time many countries have already adopted many of the measures that they would need to control the spread of this outbreak so the reason why they're calling this a global emergency right now is that they want to take control of the narrative they want to take control of the messaging and they want to make sure that people put in evidence based practices instead of allowing the fear to permeate through the population and cause people to make irrational decisions in terms of things like travel bans or or some of the racism that we've seen around the globe so this may feel familiar to some people we we've been through zico we've been through sars can you compare this to that like are they similar i

coffee and who are having problems with breathing should immediately look for medical care for dr patrick tang is the division chief of pathology sciences at sidra medicine in cata explains how the outbreak compares to that of the sars outbreak 17 years ago. we know so far about this novel coronavirus in china it's it's probably less lethal than sars so of the people that get infected with this virus 3 percent of them die whereas from saw it during sars about 10 percent of the people that got infected died from the infection in terms of infective nys the the new virus is as infectious as sars if not more infectious and sars at least based on what we know right now so after sars scientists went out to find out what was the source of sars and from all the studies done in china they've they found that these coronaviruses live in bats so they're pretty hundreds if not more different variants of sars viruses coronaviruses that live in bats and in any number of them might have mutations that allow them to cause infections in people everywhere want around the world both in china as well as the rest o