JHU Real-Time Mapping 2019-nCoV Mapping 2019-nCoV

For we liberal arts majors here's another way to put it- and I'm not being flippant when I quote the Ian Malcolm character as written by Michael Creighton:

"...the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way."  Also, "we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens outside the normal order of things. An accident....or beyond out control, like a fatal illness. We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence. Yet it is."

A good reason to keep that R&D at top priority, IMO.