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Coronavirus is "novel".

Apr 10, 2020 3:19AM PDT

This is as old as Pharaoh. https://apnews.com/517bb5588fc94403f797a2045095dcac
"New, larger wave of locusts threatens millions in Africa"
"some 20 times the size of the first [wave]".
"The new swarms include 'young adults,' voracious bugs 'that eat more than the adult ones,'"

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Both plagues are novel
Apr 12, 2020 5:22PM PDT

It depends on how your definition of novel...Coronavirus may be older and rarer than the locust plague you're referring to, but it is indeed still a novel epidemic.

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"novel [new] coronavirus" is the name
Apr 13, 2020 1:44AM PDT

given it by the early researchers. It was new to them. Related to that are the findings that there are no immunities to it. Even seasonal influenza, slightly different DNA each year, finds some who are immune to it.
My point was that the world has troubles plural. Locusts are natural, and so is- as far as we know- novelC (as I choose to call it).
Others, like the many wars being waged right now which will help COVID-19 (that's for 2019) kill, are man-made.
Don't worry, though. In the US anyway there's an election coming up, so the people will get to choose which man they want to solve the man-made problems. (Is there something wrong with this picture? Oh, well. Never mind.)