It's not like global warning. These are the tallies of presented cases that end up needing hospitalization or icu. The plain fact is that the percentage doesn't matter because whatever percentage it is it IS overwhelming health care systems. So I don't care if it's 1% that ultimately end up hospitalized....they are STILL overwhelming the healthcare system in every country where it's been IF nothing is done.
The numbers are piddling. Piddly. Miniscule. There are 7 billion people in the world. 60 million people die every day. 3000 people have died in 3 and 1/2 months of a specific cause. The rate of doubling should be long for the first doubling and progressively shorter for each subsequent doubling to make an exponential growth that would be needed to become a serious danger. The number of dead in America is less than 50. It hasn’t gone up in a couple of weeks. All we see are panic buying and some randomly distributed positive tests. Tom Hanks got it but he is in Australia. The largest concentration of coronavirus fatalities was in a convalescent hospital in Washington state. That was weeks ago. The stock market has gone down but that can happen for any or even no reason.