[noahmotion]

> It’s still possible that quarantines and travel bans will first halt the outbreak and then eradicate the microbe, and the world will never see 2019-nCoV again, as epidemiologist Dr. Mike Ryan, head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization, told STAT on Saturday. That’s what happened with SARS in 2003.

Is absence of SARS for 17 years really equivalent to never seeing it again?

[SpicyLemonZest]

“Never seeing it again” here contrasts with what happened for the 2009 H1N1 virus, which is now a recurring part of the annual flu season.