[Bon mots]

Mortality rate for SARS was 10%, and for MERS 34%.

Virus	Death Rate
Wuhan Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)	3%*
SARS	10%
MERS	34%
Swine Flu	0.02%

*estimate

So how virulent is it? If it afflicts 25% of the people in China, that's over 10 million dead in China alone.

All because somebody let this thing escape a lab in Wuhan - this is an engineered virus.

[lepton]

*estimate

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SWAG.

The information available suggests it could be anywhere from a hundredth that, to ten times that - primarily because information is severely lacking, and because it is still very early in the cycle. How many cohorts of infected have gone completely through the infection/recovery cycle?