Israeli virologist urges world leaders to calm public, slams 'unnecessary panic' | The Times of Israel

Israeli virologist urges world leaders to calm public, slams 'unnecessary panic' | The Times of Israel
‘People think this virus is going to attack them all, and then they’re all going to die,’ says Prof. Jihad Bishara. ‘Not at all. In fact, most of those infected won’t even know it’

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A leading Israeli virologist on Sunday urged world leaders to calm their citizens about the coronavirus pandemic, saying people were being whipped into unnecessary panic.

...It’s not in the air. 

Not everyone [who is infected] dies; most of them will get better and won’t even know they were sick, or will have a bit of mucus.”
But in Israel and around the world, “everybody is whipping everybody else up into panic — the leaders, via the media, and the wider public — who then in turn start to stress out the leaders. 

We’ve entered some kind of vicious cycle.”"

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