# How concerned are you about this Coronavirus?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [January 29, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-concerned-are-you-about-this-coronavirus/847164 "2020-01-29T15:23:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jim\_Peebles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Jim\_Peebles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_Peebles)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-concerned-are-you-about-this-coronavirus/847164/419 "2020-03-03T15:36:29Z")

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Now some experts are looking at vape lung as a cause for the freak out:

> **[Flu, vaping or novel coronavirus: experts suspect the US might have failed to...](https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1181292.shtml)**
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> The US might have failed to identify illnesses of different causes, experts said considering the outbreaks of influenza and vaping-related illnesses in the country. Some have connected the cases with novel coronavirus.

Was this the spread of my idea, or near simultaneous discovery?

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