Flights are canceled, citizens are quarantined and foreign governments are trying to evacuate their citizens. The World’s host Carol Hills talks with Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, about the global effort to contain the respiratory illness, and whether the measures are based on evidence or fear.
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