GLOBAL DISTURBANCE

J.J. McCoy is New Frontier Data Senior Managing Editor.

 the Chinese government reported the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. By the first week of March, the number of reported cases increased beyond 102,000 in 90 countries, with nearly 3,500 reported fatalities. The World Health Organization (WHO) raised the risk assessment for the global spread of coronavirus to “very high,” and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared its spread throughout the United States as “inevitable.”