ZERO-HEDGE.COM Quarantine Expanded To 8 Cities As Coronavirus Kills First Victim Outside Wuhan 8 Chinese cities, more than 23 million people, effectively under quarantine Multiple cases across the world - from Scotland to Singapore and USA 653 Infected according to Chinese officials (Mainland China: 639 Taiwan: 1 Macau: 2 Hong Kong: 2 Vietnam: 2 Thailand: 3 Singapore: 1 Japan: 1 South Korea: 1 US: 1). 18 Dead (following 1st death outside Wuhan) WHO says "not the time to declare a global health emergency" Patient in Texas recently traveled to Wuhan WHO estimates coronavirus is about as contagious as the Spanish flu, more than twice as infectious as the common flu. Also, in the latest sign that the regime in Beijing hasn't kept its promise of complete transparency, the SCMP reports that health-care workers in Wuhan are getting sick at a rate that is faster than previously revealed. Initially, Chinese authorities insisted that health care workers weren't being sickened, indicating that the virus didn't spread via human to human contact. But we've since learned that this was a lie. If it seems like every person who managed to escape Wuhan is carrying the virus, here's one possible explanation: the WHO estimated that the coronavirus has a Ro (a measure of how contagious a virus is) of 2, equivalent to the Spanish flu that sickened 500 million during the first half of the 20th century. The common flu, by comparison, has a Ro of 0.9. The Real Umbrella Corp: Wuhan Ultra Biohazard Lab Was Studying "The World's Most Dangerous Pathogens" Now that not one but seven Chinese cities - including Wuhan, ground zero of the coronavirus epidemic - and collectively housing some 23 million people, are under quarantine... ... comparisons to the infamous Raccoon City from Resident Evil are coming in hot and heavy. And, since reality often tends to imitate if not art then certainly Hollywood, earlier today we jokingly asked if the Medical Research Institute at Wuhan University would end up being China's version of Umbrella Corp. Is the Medical Research Institute at Wuhan University, Center for Immunology and Metabolism also called "Umbrella Corp" for short? As it turns out, it wasn't a joke, because moments ago it was brought to our attention that in February 2017, Nature penned an extensive profile of what it called the "Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens." The location of this BSL-4 rated lab? Why, Wuhan. A quick read of what this lab was meant to do, prompts the immediate question whether the coronavirus epidemic isn't a weaponized virus that just happened to escape the lab: The Wuhan lab cost 300 million yuan (US$44 million), and to allay safety concerns it was built far above the flood plain and with the capacity to withstand a magnit ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc5UPU9_4FE