New data from China's COVID-19 epidemic reveals important clues about how the outbreak unfolded — and how it's slowing sooner than expected. Bruce Aylward, a Canadian doctor and epidemiologist, led the World Health Organization's COVID-19 mission to China. This week, he showed reporters epidemic curves, or epicurves, of China's COVID-19 outbreak to illustrate how transmission chains — people spreading the infection to others — were interrupted. (CBC News)"It is the unanimous assessment of the team that they have changed the course of this outbreak. In China, Aylward said, officials aren't letting down their guard and continue to build hospitals and buy ventilators in case the virus surges again as lockdowns are eased.

Source: CBC News February 28, 2020 20:48 UTC