[BushMeister]

I crunched the numbers at the CDC website for the past 9 years. The estimates are that in the US, there are an average of 28.6 million influenza cases each year, with 447,000 hospitalizations, and 37,400 deaths. That's a death rate of .13%, or 1 death for every 764 people with the flu.

COVID-19 is far more frightening in several respects. The death rate seems to be at least 2% (1 death for every 50 people with the virus, which is 15 times higher than the flu), and COVID-19 is also thought to be far more communicable than influenza. If COVID-19 becomes widespread in the US, it could have a severe impact on our economy, and completely overwhelm the healthcare system.

[Rebelbase]

“If COVID-19 becomes widespread in the US, it could have a severe impact on our economy, and completely overwhelm the healthcare system.”

Thinking the same thing here. Supply chain disruptions will cause all kinds of havoc. Doubling the daily intake at hospitals will be crippling.

Panic buying will hit at some point and the stores will look like an Atlanta, GA grocery on the eve of a predicted one inch snowfall.