Yes the flu death rate is .1%, this is 2.5%. So if it is as easy to transmit and can’t be contained, you’d be looking at 25x that number possibly. That’s no taking into account overwhelmed hospitals etc. should it become that bad. Hopefully not, but it doesn’t hurt to think about the situation/responses.
The other thing people aren’t considering is the financial problems if it continues. China’s flights are down 78%, travel gone. It could easily be a catalyst that starts them into slow down. So many of our daily used items come from there auto parts, electronics, etc. Yeah they are less quality but nobody to fill those orders for awhile.
There’s goes your new budget optics.......
In one city? I’ll take our flues odds over this crap, have we quarantined 45 million people for the flu? https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/8001...tine-as-officials-try-to-halt-coronavirus-spr
And why would their president say it is a “grave’ situation, seems something isn’t fully being told.
The COVID-19 Global Death Toll Has Surpassed 1,100
A slower pace of new cases in outbreak’s epicenter offers some hopetime.com
“Chinese President Xi Jinping has called the outbreak a “grave” situation andsent the country’s Premier, Li Keqiang, to Wuhan to assess the response to the virus. Li, who is head of a new task force that’s coordinating efforts to contain the disease, said Monday that the government would send 2,500 more medical workers to Wuhan over the next two days. As of Tuesday morning, 4,130 medical staff from around China had arrived in Hubei province; it is expected that a total of 6,000 will arrive. At least two makeshift hospitals created to respond to the virus are being constructed in Wuhan and national health officials have said more than 10,000 beds will be ready in Wuhan soon.”
