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Systemic risk of pandemic via novel pathogens : Coronavirus ; a Note

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(January 2020)Library Catalog: necsi.edu.

Abstract

The novel coronavirus emerging out of Wuhan, China has been identified as a deadly strain that is also highly contagious. The response by China to date has included travel restrictions on tens of millions across several major cities in an effort to slow its spread. Despite this, positively identified cases have already been detected in many countries spanning the globe and there are doubts such containment would be effective. This note outlines some principles to bear in relation to such a process. Clearly, we are dealing with an extreme fat-tailed process owing to an increased connectivity, which increases the spreading in a nonlinear way 1, 2. Fat tailed processes have special attributes, making conventional risk-management approaches inadequate.

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