The flu kills 12000 or so every year...
His is new so there is no vaccine yet...but is it real as there making it out to be is the question...
This could crash the stock market and economy just in time for the election????
The flu kills 20,000 or so in the US every year out of 20 million or so cases. 0.1%
Heart disease kills 650,000 or so every year in the US out of (essentially) 20 million cases. 3.25%
We know this and expect it. We work to solve it and save/extend lives.
But now there is a threat that some new thing that is killing somewhere between 2 and 15 percent of the people that get it, fills up hospitals to the point they collapse when it runs rampant, is 4 or 5 times as contagious as the flu and kills at the same rate as heart disease (at least, but maybe as much as 5 times as lethal). Heart disease kills 1/4 of the people that die in the US every year. Imagine the Wuhanic Plague being added to the mix.
People that are not taking this seriously are fools.
stop with the ‘flu kills’ meme! This is not the “flu” There will be no vaccine for at least 1-1.5 years and will be based on whatever is the current strain. by then, this bio-weapon will have mutated several times and the vaccine be as likely to kill as cure.
The stock market and the “economy” are the least of your worries.