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Why weren't we able to stop the 2019 novel coronavirus like we did the sars and mers outbreaks?
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MERS & SARS: MERS & SARS petered out so it is not like we had a vaccine or a cure. The SARS-CoV-2 virus was a much better candidate to make it to pandemic proportions.
Answered 5/18/2020
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