New Coronavirus 'With Pandemic Potential' Discovered

[tsptalk]

Really?

China Reports New Coronavirus 'With Pandemic Potential' Discovered

Stocks suddenly tumbled shortly after lunch and trading desks are scrambling to find a catalyst. With today's big $2.7 trillion options expiration 'unclenching gamma', the market is more free to move, but many are citing a report by The Daily Mail claiming a new coronavirus has been discovered in the wild in China that has the potential to another pandemic.

China Reports New Coronavirus 'With Pandemic Potential' Discovered | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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... Or was it economic concerns?

Dow drops 700 points for worst day of 2025 so far on new fears about economic growth: Live updates

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

 

[bmneveu]

Ugh are we gonna hear about a new pandemic-level virus ever year for eternity now? I wouldn't move a penny based on those reports unless I start hearing death numbers.

 

[JTH]

"Dr. Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, called the reaction to the study "overblown."
He said there is a lot of immunity in the population to similar SARS viruses compared with 2019, which may reduce the pandemic risk.
The study itself noted that the virus has significantly less binding affinity to human ACE2 than SARS-CoV-2, and other suboptimal factors for human adaptation suggest the "risk of emergence in human populations should not be exaggerated."

Chinese researchers find bat virus enters human cells via same pathway as COVID​