<strong>哈佛大學教授認為，現階段老百姓除了勤洗手、注意打噴嚏要捂嘴，等改進衛生習慣以外，沒有什麼好的應對方法，所以什麼雙黃連之類的就省省吧。
<strong>聽聽頂級專家的，別聽反中蛆的宣傳。
Professor of Epidemiology Marc Lipsitch, director of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and an expert on the spread of infectious diseases, including his work during the SARS coronavirus outbreak in 2003.
Marc Lipsitc 是流行病學教授，就職於哈佛大學 T.H. Chan 公共衛生學院傳染病動力學中心，也是傳染病傳播研究方面的專家，參與了2003年SARS冠狀病毒爆發期間的研究工作。
GAZETTE: How about the Chinese health care system? Do you feel that they can handle this?
GAZETTE：中國的醫療體系怎麼樣？你覺得中國能應對好新冠病毒嗎？
LIPSITCH: I think the Chinese system is mobilizing very quickly. They’ve done much of the important science on it. And one of the world’s best epidemiology groups is in Hong Kong. They cut their teeth on SARS and are now very avidly working on this. So there are lots of good efforts going, but I think it’s too early to tell whether it’s going to be SARS-like or milder or far more sustained.
Lipsitch：我認為中國的體制已經迅速地動員起來了。中國在這方面做了很多重要的科研工作。世界上最強的一個流行病學團隊就在香港。這個團隊對SARS的應對非常得力，目前正積極開展新冠病毒研究。因此，人們正在努力工作，效果良好，但我認為現在判斷它是否會像SARS一樣，沒那SARS麼嚴重溫，或者比SARS更持久，這還為時尚早。
GAZETTE: What is the most important thing for the public to know at this stage?
GAZETTE：現階段公眾最需要了解的是什麼？
LIPSITCH: There’s a lot of uncertainty at this moment. People should keep listening to the reports to understand better what the implications are. As far as concrete actions, there’s very little anyone can do except practice basic hygiene — hand washing, cough and sneeze etiquette, as they call it — into your elbow to avoid aerosolizing your viruses.
Lipsitch：現在有很多不確定因素。人們應該不斷獲悉報道情況，以便更好地瞭解其中的含義。至於具體的行動，除了基本的衛生習慣，比如，洗手，注意咳嗽和打噴嚏的方式，正如人們所說的，用手肘捂住鼻子，這樣可以避免身上的病毒形成氣溶膠。
GAZETTE: As far as symptoms, what should people look out for? Fevers, that kind of thing?
GAZETTE：就症狀而言，人們應該注意什麼？發燒之類的嗎？
LIPSITCH: Fevers and coughs. Of course, those are also the symptoms of flu and other things.
Lipsitch：發燒和咳嗽。當然，流感之類的疾病的症狀也是發燒和咳嗽。
Professor of Epidemiology Marc Lipsitch
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