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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the microbiologist who explained some basic comparative virology on another coronavirus thread.

Just as a matter of principle, I wouldn't encourage people to travel by air, internationally, or to a US city with confirmed cases of the virus. My concern is not with the Chinese community at the location, but simply that planes, airports and crowds in a city with confirmed cases is just increasing your risk unnecessarily.

This is out of an abundance of caution. There is a very small chance your child will be infected, and the mortality isn't has high as SARS or MERS. Adults still need to travel for work all the time. Unless your child has a respiratory fragility or an underlying medical condition, he will likely pull through anyway, even if he gets sick. But... why take that chance?

Now, if this concert counts towards a grade, I advise you to contact the organizers to see how amenable they are to changing their plans.

If your child goes, make sure he understands that he must wash his hands frequently, particularly before eating, and NOT TOUCH HIS FACE.
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Thank you for chiming in. Curious about infection and transmission - does a virus like this always make a person ill, or can they "just" be a carrier, and infect others unwittingly? Or is that not something that has been assessed yet?

I agree that adults are traveling for work - and hopefully taking best precautions wen they do. But this is a group of teens. We can tell them until we are blue in the face the best practices they should be using and yet, at the end of the day, they are teens. My confidence level of that happening is about nil. [/quote]

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