This coronavirus pandemic resembles an influenza-like scenario in the way it transmits person to person via breathing an infected person’s airborne droplets and tiny aerosol particles that are filled with virus, just as we detailed an influenza pandemic would unfold in chapter 19. What do all of these infectious disease outbreaks have in common? They all came as a surprise, and they shouldn’t have. Nor should the next one; and rest assured, there will be a next one, and one after that, and on and on.
