I am thinking the mortality rate will be between 0.7 to 1.5% with is very high compare to the Flu. Reason for that we are more advance then we were with the Spanish Flu.
We have a modern sewer and heath regulation over all. Side note: Don’t eat at places with dirty looking people and run down restaurants.
No it is not just a Flu or Cold. Yes people will die that is older and others with heath issues. The key if we practice good hand washing and wearing a mask/self isolate when you are sick will keep the numbers low.
I plan on wearing a mask when I visit my Mother or other relatives that have heath issues.
My favorite web site that can make anyone an expert of the coronavirus in just an hour or two:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD2-QVBQi48RRQTD4Jhxu8w
If you are good at multitasking you can wash your hands while watching it. ;-)
(sorry, this is my dark humor morning...you will get the joke if you watch the videos)
The question then becomes, what is the viral load *typically* necessary to spread infection?
And does that depend on the exact portal by which the virus is introduced to the body?
Recall the Chinese doctor, who had not been to Wuhan, who caught it by sitting at a conference table, with a doctor who *had*...