239270 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/03/it-wasnt-just-trump-who-got-it-wrong/164186/For people stuck in asystemic thinking, all this may well have seemed like a small, faraway threat. If one merely looked at the R0, the virus wasn’t outrageously contagious. The number was similar to seasonal flu, but nothing explosive like measles, which has an R0 of 12 to 18—one ill person can infect another 12 to 18 people.Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:58:00 +0100defenseone-3036dbf8374bf7e58b054c90dda5892a20200328135800https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/03/it-wasnt-just-trump-who-got-it-wrong/164186/For people stuck in asystemic thinking, all this may well have seemed like a small, faraway threat. If one merely looked at the R0, the virus wasn’t outrageously contagious. The number was similar to seasonal flu, but nothing explosive like measles, which has an R0 of 12 to 18—one ill person can infect another 12 to 18 people.Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:57:00 +0100newsnow-co-uk-3036dbf8374bf7e58b054c90dda5892a20200328135700https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2020/mar/28/coronavirus-reporting-italy-death-tollS ometimes being a journalist means having to improvise. It was Sunday 23 February when Italy announced draconian measures to stop people leaving or entering 11 towns that had been put under quarantine - 10 in the Lombardy region and one in Veneto. I got up early that day to hike around Lake Albano....Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:32:00 +0100guardian-e0bfb8fad392c8cae62af0b0cd09dd7d20200328133200https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2020/mar/28/coronavirus-reporting-italy-death-tollS ometimes being a journalist means having to improvise. It was Sunday 23 February when Italy announced draconian measures to stop people leaving or entering 11 towns that had been put under quarantine - 10 in the Lombardy region and one in Veneto. I got up early that day to hike around Lake Albano....Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:24:00 +0100newsnow-co-uk-e0bfb8fad392c8cae62af0b0cd09dd7d20200328132400