The Communist Party Central Committee has had a meeting on pneumonia due to the novel coronavirus.
President / Premier / Head Honcho Xi (”Winnie the Pooh Flu”) has publicly announced that this is a grave health crisis (he used the word grave, or whatever the Chinese word is that gets translated into grave) and that transmission is *accelerating*.
China has canceled existing tours / hotel packages.
China has locked down 53 MILLION people, they can’t leave their cities.
Russia, France, and the US are removing their citizens from Wuhan.
The South China Daily News reports the case of a family with this from MID-JANUARY where the 10-year old had “ground glass” appearance in the lungs (yes, Google it, it’s a real result on X-rays) and yet was entirely asyptomatic.
A Harvard School Of Public Health member has estimated the R value (# of people infected by each carrier) as up to 4; since revised “downward” to only 2.5
Even by official statistics, (and a heat map put out by Johns Hopkins) it looks like the fatality rate is 2%-3%.
...in China.
I live in the US. Different diseases have different mortality rates here than there.