I’m not against shutting off travel.
I just haven’t seen yet how dangerous this is.
We still have no solid reports on the “prior condition” of those who died (NO, I’m not saying THEY DESERVE IT, for God’s sake). It’s still looking like a small %.
I’m not overly worried yet.
Let’s be cautious for now, but not freak out, and we’ll see how it goes.
Ebola - now THAT was scary. That was a high mortality rate and real rough treatment and recovery. That angered me that they didn’t do more to curb that travel, but we got past it for now.
25% of those infected will need an ICU bed.
How many of those do we have?
The cases in Germany went like this:
Woman (chinese) in shanghai (employee of german automaker) was visited by her parents, from Wuhan, in mid January.
On jan 21, she traveled to Germany and met with her coworkers there for class/training. Then flew home. She was asymptomatic the whole time she was in Germany.
She infected 3 of her coworkers (so far) and one of them has managed to infect someone else also.
I’ve read that the Chinese women has either never become symptomatic or did so only on returning to china.
This disease progression isn’t unlike ebola. The mortality rate is much lower, but the morbidity is astounding. We simply don’t have the ICU beds if this gets going here.