re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

I think the Flu statistics are just as unreliable as the coronavirus statistics. You should read this article on the HHS website, it explains it well.

HHS.gov

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Meanwhile, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), "influenza and pneumonia" took 62 034 lives in 2001—61 777 of which were attributed to pneumonia and 257 to flu, and in only 18 cases was flu virus positively identified. Between 1979 and 2002, NCHS data show an average 1348 flu deaths per year (range 257 to 3006). The NCHS data would be compatible with CDC mortality estimates if about half of the deaths classed by the NCHS as pneumonia were actually flu initiated secondary pneumonias. But the NCHS criteria indicate otherwise: "Cause-of-death statistics are based solely on the underlying cause of death... defined by WHO as `the disease or injury which initiated the train of events leading directly to death.'"

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Coronavirus causes an acute viral pneumonia much different than Flu. This is demonstrated by unique findings on CT scan which are being used by some countries to make diagnoses. Flu can do that as well but it’s very uncommon.

The people dying from coronavirus aren’t dying of secondary bacterial pneumonias. Or at least no one has reported that.

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David Rosenthal, director of Harvard University Health Services, said, "People don't necessarily die, per se, of the [flu] virus—the viraemia. What they die of is a secondary pneumonia. So many of these pneumonias are not viral pneumonias but secondary [pneumonias]."

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I wish I could tell you but you are asking the wrong person

If it’s driven by fear I guess you would have to ask yourself when is the next time we will get good news?

And the fact that there will be other likely events that will trigger more fear that ultimately don’t change anything but are simply headline stories... first US death, WHO announcing pandemic, etc.

It is. I think people will calm down when they realize this won’t cause global shutdown. It will likely cause brief regional shutdowns to control localized outbreaks, but the economy and country can still function.

My money on a rebound is sometime in the week after next at the earliest.

I’m betting we’ve had community level transmission, and the floodgates opened Wednesday for broader testing, getting a higher level of freedom to test because they are going to start letting non fed labs test.

Also, next week enters the time table of when we should expect to start seeing American deaths.

The morbidity rate is 2%. Its fear and hysteria wrecking economies, not the virus itself.

Only 2%! That is an astronomical number. Social Security is about to lose a lot of customers.

I see we're offering to send spies, I mean medical supplies, to Iran.

All elderly deaths in Italy. That makes their numbers look less concerning.

My theory right now is this virus got to Italy and Iran very early and spread widely and you are seeing the worst cases present. I think South Korea was much more proactive and prepared for widespread testing that is identifying a more realistic amount of cases.

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I don't know how things are by you, but aside from a crazy cousin, literally no one I know or in my community is talking about this.

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The biggest concern I’m hearing is if it’s going to mess up summer vacations

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Having a penis doubles your risk just like China.

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The biggest concern I’m hearing is if it’s going to mess up summer vacations

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In the international trade, logistics, and commodities business people have already cancelled their summer vacations. They're worried about an avalanche of bankruptcies throughout the supply chain that destroys hundreds of millions of jobs and causes a domino financial crisis.