Closing schools and canceling large public events without an immediate threat of people contracting coronavirus is only serving to spread fear in the hearts of Americans, Fox News medical correspondent and NYU Langone Professor of Medicine Dr. Marc Siegel said Tuesday. CORONAVIRUS 'CONTAINMENT ZONE' IN NEW YORK COUNTY TO SHUT DOWN FOR 2 WEEKS, UNDERGO CLEANING"If you're doing it for legal reasons, that you don't want to get sued or because of fear, you're actually spreading more fear. You're spreading panic. You're giving the message to people that there's more of this virus out there," Siegel told the "Outnumbered" co-hosts. To date, more than 113,000 cases of the new coronavirus have been recorded worldwide with more than 4,000 deaths.

Source: Fox News March 10, 2020 19:07 UTC