(COVID/ETC CONTENT HERE) China Locks Down 11 Million in Wuhan,

[Averageman]

We are now advising against travel to China.

http://news.trust.org/item/20200127192459-dowhs

Well that was amazingly about a week and a half late, but after all it is the .gov.
If I were a CEO of a major company, I think I could have made this call two weeks ago. We live in an age where a handshake is no longer meaningful or necessary, so why do I need to send someone who works for me to the epicenter of a viral soup bowl?
That's right up there with everyone should feel safe and secure because everyone travelling in to the US from Wuhan is getting theor temperature checked as they get off the plane here in the US.
Curly, Moe and Larry have a better capacity to protect us from this pandemic than the people currently at the helm.

[Vic79]

If they’re 44,000 estimate is correct and a 3% mortality rate, they would only be looking at 1,320 dead. Not great not terrible.

[Hmac]

If they’re 44,000 estimate is correct and a 3% mortality rate, they would only be looking at 1,320 dead. Not great not terrible.

The SARS coronavirus had a 10-15% mortality rate, the MERS coronavirus had a 30-35% mortality rate. If this novel coronavirus holds at 3% (it probably won't), then it's a relative lightweight. At any rate...it's not going to be The Walking Dead.

[Averageman]

With a 14 day incubation period we might get this in waves.

[mack7.62]

If they’re 44,000 estimate is correct and a 3% mortality rate, they would only be looking at 1,320 dead. Not great not terrible.

It ain't stopping at 44,000, crowded Chinese city of 11,000,000, weeks long asymptomatic contagious period likely millions are catching this so at 3% that's 30,000 for every million patients. Plus cat is out of the bag, Wuhan has an international airport how many hundreds or thousands of infected have spread out across the world.

[Vic79]

I’m sure somebody knows, what is the mortality rate on the influenza A/b this year.

[mack7.62]

Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

Based on National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality surveillance data available on January 23, 2020, 6.7% of the deaths occurring during the week ending January 11, 2020 (week 2) were due to P&I. This percentage is below the epidemic threshold of 7.1% for week 2.

[chuckman]

8,200 flu deaths/15 million flu diagnoses....

[Straight Shooter]

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[utahjeepr]

I don't mean to minimize the impact of anyone's death, but this just feels all blown out.

As others have mentioned how proportional is this to garden variety flu. The press is all hot and heavy about this latest Kung Flu, but how many died in China last week of the common cold?