Many people keep comparing the novel coronavirus epidemic to the SARS outbreak in 2002-03. But we live in a different world today. While the treatment of diseases has marginally advanced in the past 17 years, the big difference between then and now is that in 2003 internet and mobile technologies were in their and social media was in its infancy. The flow of information then was more like a trickle, which now is a torrent driven by new innovative technologies, many of them developed in China. ( infect, adolescent )