Instead, what I call the “pancebo effect” tends to occur. The pancebo effect is when a person begins to worry that the worst is about to happen without valid evidence. Knowing the low risk the virus poses to Canada, you might wonder how the pancebo effect could possibly take hold here as it has. As we’ve seen with past potential pandemics, when the pancebo effect takes hold, it’s almost impossible to resolve it without bringing the outbreak to a conclusion altogether. We don’t need to succumb to the pancebo effect.

Source: Huffington Post February 03, 2020 22:04 UTC