Review of the article on "The Rate of Underascertainment of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection: Estimation Using Japanese Passergers Data On Evacuation Flights"

Abstract

According to the article “The Rate of Under ascertainment of Novel
Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection: Estimation Using Japanese Passengers
Data on Evacuation Flights” on February 4, 2020, there are logical
fallacies. In this article, many assumptions are based on author’s
own simple and optimistic view of the virus without any solid real
world evidence. The first assumption is that “human migration on the
epidemic dynamics of 2019-nCoV will be soon visually identifiable”1; here,
the author is basically quoting his previous article as the resource
to support this statement without any case study or statistical facts
to support this statement. The author did not explain “identifiable”
in term of molecular structure. Again, the author has ignored
the validity issue of under-reporting issue.