This is pretty weird.

“Okay, sure, 67 people have caught the virus, and it’s adapting to survive in humans, and if it became transmissible in humans it would be a historic calamity, and it just killed someone this month. But it’s not time to worry yet.”

I’m not trying to tell the epidemiologist how to do his epidemiology, but that sounds like saying “We’ll only be in trouble if the car goes off the cliff, so there’s no need to worry quite yet.” The time when it’s productive to do your worrying is before that happens.